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ALUMNI ATHLETIC FIELD. 


























DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


A COMPLETE HISTORY OF ALL KINDS 
OF SPORTS AT THE 
COLLEGE. 

v/ 

John Henry Bartlett ’94, 

Literary Editor. 

John Pearl Gifford ’94, 

Business Editor. 



CONCORD, N. H.: 

REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. 

1893. 


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LC Control Number 



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PREFACE. 


' I * HAT those who in years past have exerted their 
XF - united brain and muscle to maintain the honor of 
old Dartmouth in the college world, and to lift the 
“green” to a conspicuous place, should be honored by 
something more enduring than the spasmodic cheers 
that rise and fall on the eve of victory, is the object of 
this volume. In the lapse of many years it has been 
impossible to justly compare men and deeds and to col¬ 
lect the unquestionable facts in every case, and yet this 
has been our aim. With the athletes of ten, twenty, and 
thirty years ago, scattered in the various professions and 
occupations over the entire globe, themselves forgetful 
of their own former prowess, our task has been difficult 
and in some degree unsatisfactory. No doubt our limited 
sources of information have, in some cases, led to the 
insufficient notice of a few; and yet, in a true Dartmouth 
spirit, we submit this work to the charitable criticism of 
Dartmouth men. 

We are under obligations to Professor C. F. Emerson, 
for his encouragement, criticism, and information; to 
Professor M. D. Bisbee, for placing the files of the un¬ 
der-graduate publications at our disposal; to those who 
have contributed articles, and to the ever loyal alumni, 
who have encouraged and aided us in other ways. 

John H. Bartlett. 


Hanover, November 22, 1893. 


Wah-hoo-wah / 
Wah-hoo-wah ! 

Da, da, Dartmouth, 
Wah-hoo-wah ! 
T-I-G-E-R. 


INTRODUCTION. 


A THLETIC sports ill American schools, colleges, 
and universities make no apology for their ex¬ 
istence, as they have won for themselves a recognized 
place in the established order of things ; they are the 
natural outgrowth of the increased attention given of 
late to the physical side of man’s development. The 
American people were slow to learn that their nervous, 
on-rushing, and speedy ways of conducting business 
enterprises demanded stronger physiques, but the lesson 
once learned, at great cost, will prove, it is to be hoped, 
a permanent blessing to future generations. 

No institution of learning to-day, even of the medium 
or lower grade, is considered complete in its equipment 
without some provision for physical culture ; and physi¬ 
cal culture, once recognized as a distinctive branch in 
the training of youth, will seek and find some fitting 
public expression for itself: hence arise contests of 
various kinds, at first simple and natural, but soon 
expanded into elaborate and studied forms ; thus a busi¬ 
ness springs up in which both science and skill are 
called into requisition, and a department of training and 
physical culture is established. 

The beginning may be very humble and meagre, as it 
was at Dartmouth college thirty years ago, when two 
posts and a rude horizontal rail, known as “Freshman’s 
gallows,” stood for the total equipment. To-day, as we 
look out upon a field of seven acres, set apart, fitted up, 
and fully equipped at a cost of $ 16,000 for out-door sports 
l* 


VI 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


of all kinds, we must admit that times have changed. 
As a new era is being ushered in so auspiciously, it is 
eminently fitting that a permanent record of the past 
should be made public by the issuing of a book contain¬ 
ing a full and accurate history of athletics in Dartmouth 
college to the present time. 

Headers of this book should keep constantly in mind 
three facts which have been very stubborn ones at all 
times : that Dartmouth students are somewhat removed 
from the large centres of activities, and hence have few 
opportunities for friendly tests and competition ; that 
her facilities for physical culture have been of the hum¬ 
blest, and that short purses have necessitated close atten¬ 
tion to remunerative employment; with these factors 
duly entering into the account, the record must seem to 
candid judges a very creditable one. Dartmouth has 
taken its full share of pennants, and when not able to 
secure the coveted prize, has maintained a prominent 
and honorable place in the contest, giving her a high 
average among the New England colleges in the athletic 
arena. 

If the “New Dartmouth” is able to make a record in 
athletics proportionate to its increased facilities over the 
old order of things, the best friends of the manly sports 
will be fully satisfied. That the participants in athletic 
sports at Dartmouth have warm friends among the 
alumni, or better, that the principle of physical culture 
underlying these sports has a strong advocacy among the 
alumni and friends of the college, is evidenced by the 
pains taken and the time given to the subject by the 
Executive Committee of the Alumni and the Advisory 
Committee which so ably seconded their plans, and espe¬ 
cially by the visible token of the “Alumni Athletic 
Field,” which is the outcome, the first fruit of their 


INTRODUCTION. 


Vll 


planning. In the committee’s report, made to the 
alumni association in June, 1892, their conclusions are 
summarized by the quoting of the views of one of the 
trustees, who said,—“ The time has come for the recogni¬ 
tion of athletics in the general discipline and culture of 
the college. Acknowledge this plan, take away the fric¬ 
tion consequent upon their simple tolerance, and the 
whole matter becomes manageable and helpful to the 
administration of the college. I am in favor on principle 
of some provision for athletics at Dartmouth, and a 
proper adjustment of the athletic work done there to 
the intellectual discipline of the college. College ath¬ 
letics give mental recreation. The college mind is 
quickly relieved and ventilated by the change from 
study to a subject of constant and exciting interest. I 
think that the mental value is quite as great in the aggre¬ 
gate as the physical value. Athletics as a discipline 
must be supported by athletics as a sport. It is the 
game that keeps up the gymnasium ; even those who do 
not play are stimulated by those who do. Take out the 
stimulus of college contests, and the work of the gym¬ 
nasium becomes drudgery.” 

This committee, after investigating the status of ath¬ 
letic sports in this and other colleges, came to the conclu¬ 
sion that some plan must be devised to correct certain 
evils which had grown up with the loose and irresponsi¬ 
ble management which had characterized, of necessity, 
their early existence. They accordingly reported “ that 
physical education and athletic sports should be com¬ 
pletely separated in their management; that the college 
by its faculty and trustees shall take the entire charge of 
the former, and the alumni and the under-graduates, 
with a due representation of the faculty, of the latter. 

“ This plan makes physical education a distinct depart- 


Vlll 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


ment of college instruction, having its proper and 
important place among the other departments.” 

In accordance with the above mentioned plan, the 
alumni, at their annual meeting in June last, elected a 
Committee on Athletics, consisting of nine members, 
three from the association at large, outside of Hanover, 
three from the faculty, resident in Hanover, and three 
from the under-graduates, of the Senior class: to them is 
entrusted the entire management and control of the 
various athletic sports, subject to such general rules and 
regulations as the trustees may see fit to make from time 
to time ; this committee is to have for its assistance an 
Advisory Committee of nine members, composed of 
graduates and under-graduates, and representing the 
three branches of athletics, namely : foot-ball, base-ball, 
and track-athletics, so called. 

This committee is to formulate rules and regulations 
governing all athletic sports of the college, to determine 
the eligibility of the members of the various teams, and 
to supervise the methods of raising and expending 
money. With this management, fully organized and 
working, good results may be expected, and the friends 
of Dartmouth may confidently look for an improved 
record. 

If one will take pains to look up the record of the 
prominent athletes whose names appear on the pages of 
this book, he will find that the record is a very creditable 
one ; he will be obliged to look over the profession of 
the ministry, of law, of medicine, and of teaching, as 
well as into the ranks of business men, and in each he 
will find worthy names. That time is past when a refer¬ 
ence to a man as a noted athlete in college is received 
with disfavor, for to-day the general public receives with 
pleasure such a reference. In the opinion of the writer, 


INTRODUCTION. 


ix 


full recognition has never been given to the influence 
exerted by athletics in improving the morals of college 
life ; to a close observer, for the past twenty-five years, 
there must appear a marked improvement in the moral 
atmosphere of the college, and to athletics must be 
assigned an important place among the factors which 
have accomplished the desired result. 

The training of an athletic^team is reduced to a sci¬ 
ence, and all members of a team must subject themselves 
to the rules of training to hold their places ; enforced 
temperance and freedom from indulgence in all objec¬ 
tionable things become habits of life and make the man ; 
the very constitution of our active American youth de¬ 
mands that a “safety-valve” be provided, and athletics 
furnish this in the least objectionable form that has yet 
been presented. 


Charles F. Emerson. 


CONTENTS 


Beginnings of Athletics at Dartmouth . 1 

Early College Sports . 7 

Dartmouth in Base-ball.9 

Base-ball Averages.59 

Field and Track Athletics .... 67 

Boating .171 

Foot-ball at Dartmouth. 194 

Tennis at Dartmouth. 266 

New Era in Dartmouth Athletics . . . 277 

How Dartmouth Stands in the Leagues . 283 

Origin of the Dartmouth Yell . . . 284 

A Chapter of Dartmouth Biographies . . 285 

Best Records by Dartmouth Men . . . 322 






LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 


The New Athletic Field 



Frontispiece. 

D. F. Thompson’69 . 



Facing page 9 

L. J. Rundlett ’81 . 



44 

15 

Famous Varsity Nine of 1880 



44 

18, 19 

F. 0. Chellis ’85 



44 

23 

Alexander Quackenboss ’87 



44 

28 

W. S. Sceuton ’87 . 



44 

35 

George F. Chandler ’88 



44 

41 

F. L. Keay ’88 . 



44 

45 

F. H. O’Connor D. M. C. 



44 

51 

A. J. Ranney D. M. C. ’93 



44 

57 

Lewis Parkhurst ’78 



44 

67 

Thomas Flint, Jr., ’80 . 



44 

75 

C. M. Cogswell ’80 



44 

80 

1882 Group — Condon and Others 


44 

84 

B. F. Ellis ’89 . 



44 

94 

F. E. Rowe ’91 . 



44 

103 

Elmer C. Potter ’92 



44 

110 

E. K. Hall ’92 . 



44 

119 

H. C. Ide ’93 ... 



44 

127 

F. P. Claggett ’94 . 



44 

136 

Athletic Champions of 1893 



44 

143 

A. G. Bugbee ’97 



44 

155 

Stephen Chase ’96 . 



44 

164 

W. G. Eaton ’75 



44 

171 

Sumner Wallace ’77 



44 

177 

Chas. W. Eager ’77 



44 

185 





XU 


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 


Clarence Howland ’84 



44 

194 

The First Foot-Ball Eleven 



44 

196 

Robert H. Rolfe ’84 



u 

202 

Wm. Odlin ’90 . 



u 

209 

1889 Championship Foot-Ball Eleven 

u 

216 

J. H. Fassett ’90 



u 

224 

C. S. Humphreys ’90 



u 

232 

C. S. Little ’91 



u 

240 

F. W. Lakeman ’92 . 



44 

244 

M. B. Jones ’94 ... 



44 

248 

F. P. Dodge ’95 



44 

252 

Edwin Emery Jones D. M. C. ’93 



44 

256 

R. J. Hotchkiss ’97 . 



44 ' 

260 

1893 Championship Eleven . 



44 

264 

H. 0. Aiken ’87 



44 

266 

J. E. R. Kayes ’95 . 



44 

274 

I. F. Paul ’78 . 



44 

278 

G. S. Edgell ’70 



44 

286 

E. C. Stimson ’76 



44 

288 

C. W. Stevens ’77 . 



44 

293 

C. F. Mathewson ’82 



44 

294 

C. W. Oakes ’83 



44 

298 

L. E. C. Hinckley ’84 



44 

300 

Edward F. Dillon ’88 . 



44 

304 

Dwight Hall ’94 



44 

317 





THE BEGINNING OF ATHLETICS AT 
DARTMOUTH. 


By Frederick Chase. 

y^OLLEGE athletics, in an organized shape, as the 
term is now understood, are of comparatively 
recent growth at Dartmouth. For bodily exercise in 
the earliest years of the college, resort was had to the 
pursuits of agriculture and other forms of manual 
labor. In order (says the first code of college laws) 
that “ the channel of their diversions may be turned 
from that which is puerile, such as playing with balls, 
bowls, and other ways of diversion, as have been neces¬ 
sarily gone into by students in other places, for want 
of an opportunity to exercise themselves in that which 
is more useful, . . . . it is earnestly recom¬ 

mended to the students .... that they turn the 
course of their diversions, and exercises for their 
health, to the practice of some manual arts, or cultiva¬ 
tion of gardens and other lands at the proper hours of 
leisure.” 

But these “ puerile ” games of balls and howls could 
not be wholly repressed; and there was, besides, 
especially by the Indian scholars, canoeing and skilful 
skating upon the river. Of the agility and endurance 
' 2 


2 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


of these Indian boys, several anecdotes have come 
down to us. It is said of one, that, being engaged in a 
game of ball near the middle of the Common, he heard 
cries, and observed a commotion about the college well, 
situated then at the side of the road, close to the spot 
where Reed Hall now is. Divining instantly that 
some one had fallen in, he ran at the top of his speed, 
and, without slackening his pace, leaped upon the 
bucket that hung from the “ sweep,” and, grasping the 
pole, plunged with it into the well (some thirty feet), 
where he found and rescued a little girl. 

A favorite exercise in times somewhat later, of 
which, for a long period, we find constant mention— 
though it was pursued with a little reserve, generally 
at night—was the so-called “ cow hunting,” the protec¬ 
tion, that is, of the unfenced Common, from the inva¬ 
sion of the village cows. Even the Religious Society 
had occasion now and then to discipline its members 
for countenancing this “ detestable practice.” 

The Common, or “ College Green,”—its correct offi¬ 
cial name,— was, in the original plan of the village, 
devoted by the college to students’ diversions in connec¬ 
tion with other public uses, and the games of ball 
there indulged in are duly recognized by the ancient 
records of the town in legalized derogation of ordinary 
police regulations. The Common was first fenced in 
1836, thus discontinuing the highway that, till then, 
diagonally traversed it. 


THE BEGINNING OF ATHLETICS. 


3 


That the fashion of games was varied at times we 
may well believe, but in the early years we have no 
definite information about it. A small picture printed 
before the year 1800 shows us the Common as a 
promenade for ladies and gentlemen, with a game of 
wicket in progress, to which, however, the promenad- 
ers appear to be paying little attention. Not much can 
be told of the students’ amusements before a period by 
comparison modern. 

The distinctive Dartmouth game was, however, till 
very lately, from time immemorial, the grand old 
game of foot-ball, not the modern exclusive and violent 
Rugby, but the free, joyous, and exhilarating pursuit of 
the ball all over the Green by every student, according 
to the measure of his inclination and powers. The 
traditional division of parties or “ sides ” made every 
one an active member. The first, or “ Old Division,” 
pitted the seniors and sophomores against the juniors 
and freshmen. The two great literary societies, 
“ Socials ” and “ Fraters,” furnished another obvious 
division; and both these arrangements of parties 
brought out often earnest and persistent, but generally 
good natured, rivalry. Another favorite division of 
later years put New Hampshire against the world, in 
which the New Hampshire boys were usually quite 
able to hold their own. 

Prior to 1850 the ball consisted of a leathern case in¬ 
flated by a bladder. The modern rubber ball came then 


4 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


into use, and was found at first too light for the sturdy 
muscles of Lord and Bell and Johnson, who were able 
to land it at a single kick from the warning ground, 
westerly of the centre of the Common, quite over the 
eastern fence, and into the college yard. For a short 
time, then, the game was played lengthwise of the 
Green, till the champions consented to restrain their 
powers. 

The fame of the Dartmouth game was great in 
other colleges, and none in those days had courage to 
compete. The rules of the game were simple, directed 
to prevent violence and to restrict the propulsion of the 
ball wholly to the foot. Abuses which crept gradually 
in compelled at last the interference of the college 
authorities to formulate and enforce a more stringent^ 
though slightly different, code. 

Foot-ball flourished best in the autumn. Spring and 
summer brought other familiar games—base-ball of the 
old style, go-as-you-please, and wicket and cricket and 
quoits, and now and then oddities of play, that for a 
time would excite great emulation. Boxing and fen¬ 
cing have often found admirers, and military drill has 
been periodically popular. About 1791, arms for this 
latter purpose were furnished by the state; and in 
1820, and again between 1834 and 1844, the “ Dart¬ 
mouth Phalanx ” was one of the choice companies of 
the state militia, but, sad to tell, at both periods dis¬ 
banded under the pressure of discipline. Their hand 


THE BEGINNING OF ATHLETICS. 


5 


some blue banner, long preserved in the college “ Cabi¬ 
net,” has lately disappeared. The military spirit 
revived about 1855 in the “ Dartmouth Invincibles,” 
and displayed itself with great credit in the class of 
1859. 

Gymnastics were introduced in a small way by the 
erection, in 1852, by the enthusiasts, in the ravine east 
of the observatory, of a frame popularly called the 
gallows, by some the “ Freshmen’s Gallows,” perhaps 
because a freshman did, in fact, at that time ruin his 
health for life by too violent exercise upon it. The 
apparatus consisted of nothing but two suspended 
ropes, with rings and a horizontal bar. There is a 
hint of something of this kind considerably earlier. It 
was a feature of that spot till superseded by Mr. Bis- 
sell’s Gymnasium building, with its wealth of appara¬ 
tus, in 1867. 

In this new building bowling for the first time 
received official approval. Prior to that it had been, 
with billiards, tabooed, though practised by some in a 
stealthy way in the alleys in the rear of the lower 
tavern (“South Hall”), and at the saloon of Mr. 
Wetherbee in the retirement of the western end of 
Maple street. 

Modern boating, in an organized shape, began about 
1856. The stimulus was given by the construction 
here, a little before, by the brothers Church (since 
distinguished engineers), with their own hands, of a 


6 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


four-oared, clinker-built gig, of graceful model, which 
they named the “Casta Diva.” Following this, larger 
boats were procured from abroad, and one of eight 
oars was built in the village by two students of the 
class of 1858, so that in the summer of 1857 quite a 
flotilla enlivened the river. All this was done at the 
private cost of the respective crews or classes. A 
freshet in August of that yeal carried to destruction a 
floating landing, with some of the most valuable boats, 
notably the U?ia, owned by the class of 1860, the 
pride of the flotilla. This catastrophe seriously checked 
the ardor of the boatmen. However, the flotilla sur¬ 
vived for several years, dwindling slowly to final 
extinction by the great freshet of 1869. 

The revival of boating in a new and organized form 
in 1874, and its death in the crushing of the boat¬ 
house by the snow, as well as the rise of modern base¬ 
ball, with a humble organization in the fall of 1865, 
are out of my province, as belonging to the modern 
period. 


EARLY COLLEGE SPORTS. 


By ex-Presldent Bartlett ’36. 


AtAHE college sports were alike and unlike. Quoits 
TF~ was a popular and good exercise. Base-ball was 
not then numbered among the exact sciences, nor foot¬ 
ball among the methods of modern warfare. Any repu¬ 
table candidate for the Phi Beta Kappa Society was 
capable of acquiring the one, and any young man five 
feet in height, and who should have mastered the other 
requisites for admission to West Point, was capable of 
joining in the other. Consequently all the college 
joined in it every fair day. And a very picturesque 
and exciting game they made it. Now in long array, 
now in solid knots, now in scattering groups, and now 
sweeping like a cyclone, with its runners even more 
effective than its rushers. And it had its kickers, too. 
I remember one of them, a senior when I was a fresh¬ 
man, and the stupendous boots he had made on purpose, 
with sole fully a half inch thick. I can seem to see 
him as he stood once on the extreme edge of a dense, 
surging mass of strugglers, the foot-ball far out of sight 
in the centre, but the boots going like a horizontal 
trip-hammer all the same; and in the sequel my bel¬ 
ligerent classmate did not leave his room for some 


8 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


days after, and with a slight hitch in his gait. His 
countrymen appreciated his merits. I saw him many 
years after in the “Wigwam,” a presidential elector 
from Vermont, one of the “ rush line ” that on the sec¬ 
ond ballot voted for Lincoln and helped win his nomina¬ 
tion. 

College laws at that time interdicted “playing at 
cards and dice,” these being then supposed to comprise 
all possible means of gambling and betting. What 
primitive simplicity! The trustees were little aware 
that the great game of poker had just been invented 
in the very year of the Magnet, the southern part of 
this American republic, and was soon to be made illus¬ 
trious and imported to the British empire by the Hon¬ 
orable Robert C. Schenck. 











J 



D. F. Thompson ’69. 





















DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 



HE so-called “national game” of to-day, supply- 


~o r ing the popular craze with stimulus for decades of 
years, still promises to hold its supremacy for years to 
come. The evolution of base-ball may invite the 
research of other students. Whether the old “ round 
ball,” where the wily base stealer was made the target 
of the sharp throwers, the two, three, or “four-year-old 
cat,” or some even obscurer origin, be the starting- 
point of this fascinating sport, it matters little. It 
began its history at Dartmouth in the autumn of 1865, 
by the organization of a college association, com¬ 
posed of thirty members. The occasion, purpose, and 
spirit of these founders is seen in the following quota¬ 
tions, taken from The Aegis of October, 1865 : 

“ To supply a deficiency occasioned by the lack of 
interest displayed in the foot-ball game, the college 
organized a base-ball club, which promises fair for the 
future. Its members were selected from all the classes, 
and every inducement taken to make it a perma¬ 
nent organization and one eminently adapted to take 
the place of foot-ball. It is our belief that foot-ball 
must cease to exist as a college game. The time and ad¬ 
vancing interests of old Dartmouth demand it. 


10 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Dartmouth has ever watched over the intellectual inter¬ 
ests of her sons with a zealous care, but the physical 
culture—equally as important—has been neglected 

altogether.It is with a, full appreciation 

of the requirements of the college, in this respect, that 
the base-ball club was organized; and while we cannot 
disguise the unfeigned reluctance with which we part 
from the old foot-ball game, yet let us enter into this 
new organization with a spirit that will insure suc¬ 
cess.” 

The first action of this body was to aid in the organ¬ 
ization of class nines, and to institute class contests. 
The rivalry incited by these class games developed 
some excellent players, and a college nine, organized 
in 1866, won victories over the Concord and Ports¬ 
mouth clubs. It also suffered defeat, on its own 
grounds, at the hands of its old rival, Amherst, by a 
score of 40 to 10. 

In reply to an invitation received from the Nicaean 
club of Amherst college, the Dartmouth nine played a 
return game at Amherst the following summer. The 
nine, with about twenty-five backers, started on this 
trip with no hope of victory, only “to improve last 
year’s score.” “The pitching and catching of the 
Nicaeans was excellent, in striking contrast with their 
fielding. Their batting was also very good, but as 
Greene, Ketcham, and Wilson caught flies with con¬ 
siderable facility, it proved a losing game for Amherst. 



DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


11 


Edgell’s playing was very fine, though he has been on 
the nine but a short time.” The full score, as it 
appeared in The Dartmouth , is as follows: 


DARTMOUTH. AMHERST. 


H. h. R. 


Ladd, p. 3 4 

Thompson, c. (capt.)... 4 3 

Mosher, 2b. 1 5 

Greene, 1. f. 5 2 

Ketcham, r. f. 5 2 

Edgell, s. s. 2 5 

Morse, lb. 3 2 

Wilson, c. f. 2 4 

Smith, 3 b. 2 3 


H. Ij. r. 


Lancaster, p. 4 2 

Kellogg, c. l 4 

Terry, lb. 3 3 

Coburn, 2b. 4 2 

Smith, 3b. l 5 

Seymour, s. s. 2 4 

McNeill, l.f. 2 4 

Felch, c. f. 5 0 

Ward, r. f. 5 0 



27 30 




27 24 

Innings, 1 

2 3 4 5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

Dartmouth, 1 

3 8 2 2 

3 

3 

4 

4—30 

Amherst, 6 

5 12 0 

2 

0 

4 

4—24 

Fly catches—Amherst, 8; Dartmouth, 16. 

Time, 5 hours. 

Um- 

pire, D. B. Gillett, 

of Lowell B. B. C., Boston. 

Scorers- 

-Dart- 

mouth, John N. Irwin; Amherst, Dan S. Smart. 





In the year 1868, interest in this new game was 
maintained at a medium standard. A few changes 
were made in the nine, so that its make-up was,— 
Johnson ’70, p.; Tliomjison ’69, c.; Clark ’68, 2 b.; Wil¬ 
son ’70, 1. f.; Drew ’70, r. f.; Edgell ’70, s. s.; Morse 
’68, 1 b.; Herbert ’71, c. f.; Davis ’71, 3 b. The 
third and concluding game of the series with Amherst 
was played in June of this year at Brattleboro, Yt.,— 
neutral grounds—and was won handsomely by Dart¬ 
mouth, the score being 47 to 20. It was a remarkable 
game, lasting 3 hours and 40 minutes. The first ball 
pitched to a Dartmouth man in this contest went sky¬ 
scraping so far over the centre fielder’s head that the 



















12 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


runner made the circuit of the bases and was resting, 
with a complacent smile, on the benches before the 
ball could be returned to the in-field. This was an 
encouraging omen, and ten runs were made before the 
first three men of the game were put out. “ Passed 
balls” were common in those days. In this game 
Kellogg, the Amherst catcher, had 16, and Thompson 
had only one less. 

Dartmouth played a memorable game with the Kear- 
sarge club, at Concord, this year. Four hours and a 
half was the time, 58 to 13 the score, and the record of 
“ fly catches ” and “ passed balls ” was startling. The 
college boys made the circuit of the bases 13 times in 
the first inning and 22 in the last. It was this year 
that the Bowdoin boys made their first appearance in 
Hanover and won a victory, 29 to 16. 

The game had won a place in college life and had 
apparently come to stay. We quote from an Aegis of 
about this time: 

“ Our national game, base-ball, is a manifold blessing 
to our college. It has performed an important mis¬ 
sion in bringing about the change of sentiment which 
has brought the classes to a better feeling toward each 
other. It is an absorbing amusement and exciting- 

exercise.The assiduous practice of our 

various clubs cannot fail to raise the standard of our 
playing very high.” * 


DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


13 


FIRST GAME WITH HARVARD. 

The victorious career of the Dartmouths since their 
organization led them to look higher than such teams 
as they had been playing; consequently a date was 
arranged with the Harvard nine, at Lowell, Mass., in 
June, 1869. Stopping at Concord on their way down, 
their confidence was strengthened by a victory over the 
local nine there, and with an innocent courage they 
faced the skilled and veteran players of Harvard. 38 
to 0 tells the story of their defeat. The Boston Adver¬ 
tiser styled it “an unprecedented run of ill-luck.” 
Another paper said, “The whole nine was unaccus¬ 
tomed to the newly adopted mode of pitching and 
delivering the ball.” Dartmouth men were chagrined, 
mortified, but not discouraged. The nine was ridi¬ 
culed by The Aegis , but that only deepened their 
determination. The Dartmouth man never says 
“down.” Hard and scientific practice was then the 
order of the day, and in October of the same year 
Bowdoin was defeated by a score of 40 to 19. This 
caused a reaction of feeling, and a grand celebration 
was held at Hanover. 

In 1870 the interest in base-ball was mainly confined 
to the class contests, no games being played with out¬ 
side nines. 

The finest game of ball ever played previous to this 
time (1871), on the campus, was one with Tufts, the 


14 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


result being 20 to 9, in Dartmouth’s favor. It was 
hotly contested and marked by a succession of brilliant 
plays. The home team was made up as follows: 
Horne ’74, 3 b.; Fletcher ’72, s. s.; Merrill ’72, 1. f.; 
Abbott ’71, r. f.; Bartlett ’72, c.f.; Underhill’73, 
c.; Adams ’73, 1 b.; Farmer ’72, p.; Burnham ’74, 
2 b. (captain). 

A return game at Medford, Mass., resulted in a vic¬ 
tory for Tufts,-16 to 12. Dartmouth also lost a game 
to Brown, 41 to 17, at Providence. This year is best 
known by an experience with the Amherst nine of an 
unfriendly nature. A series of three games was 
arranged with that nine after prolonged communica¬ 
tion, and, on the date of June 27, Amherst appeared 
in Hanover for the first game. The crowd had gath¬ 
ered, the teams had had their preliminary practice, the 
cheering had begun, when it was announced that no 
game would be played. In reply to a query, Presi¬ 
dent Stearns, of Amherst, had telegraphed the mana¬ 
ger of the Dartmouth nine that the challenged man was 
a “ townie,” having no connection whatever with the 
college. Amherst refused to play without him. and 
the game was cancelled. This is the first known 
charge of professionalism in what are now the three 
rival colleges. Although base-ball had forged a place 
for itself in college sports, it was destined to wane, as 
other forms of exercise and amusement crowded them¬ 
selves to the front for a trial. The gradually increasing 










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DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


15 


interest in boating made a depression in base-ball inter¬ 
est at this time. From 1872 to the autumn of 1878 
Dartmouth had no real college nine of any account. 
In 1872 there was an enthusiastic captain in E. J. 
Underhill, but no good pitcher was available. Am¬ 
herst defeated such a nine as there was, 37 to 13; and 
Tufts, 24 to 14. 

The following made up the team of 1873-74 : C. O. 
Gates, captain, 1. f.; J. B. Johnson, c.; W. G. Eaton, 
p.; E. S. Bad, lb.; H. G. Brainerd, 2 b.; C. A. 
Rich, 3 b.; W. B. Tebbetts, s. s.; G. H. Stevens, c. f.; 
W. B. Parker, r. f. 

For 1874—’75 the Aegis gives this as the nine: W. 
G. Eaton ’75, captain, p.; C. C. Towle ’75, c.; C. A. 
Rich ’75, 1 b.; W. B. Parker ’75, 2 b.; S. Wallace 
’77, 3 b.; A. H. Morton ’77, s. s.; A. F. Sears ’75, 

I. f.; A. E. Clarke ’75, c. f.; E. A. Jones ’76, r. f. 
For the year 1875-’76 the same authority gives these 
names: W. C. Clarke ’76, captain, 1. f.; A. K. Smith ’77, 

р. ; S. B. Pomeroy ’79, c.; J. W. Whidden ’79, 3 b.; 

J. B. Gerould ’78, 2 b.; A. H. Morton ’77, s. s.; F. P. 
Hill ’76, r. f.; J. L. Sewall ’77, c. f.; J. W. Staples 
’76, 1 b.; Whitcomb ’76 and S. Wallace ’77, substi¬ 
tutes. 

Again, in 1876-’77, this was the make-up of the nine: 
J. W. Whidden ’79, captain, 3 b.; A. K. Smith ’77, 

с. ; E. L. Hallman ’80, p.; J. B. Gerould ’78, 1 b.; 
W. T. Proctor ’79, 2 b.; W. Thayer ’80, s. s.; J. L. 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Sewall 77,1. f.; I. F. Paul 78, c. f.; C. H. Pettibone 
78, r. f. 

There is a record of the Meridens defeating a 78 
class nine in 1875, and of other class contests. In 1877 
a freshman nine, of energetic and prophetic origin, 
played ball with a little of the old-time skill, proved to 
be the nucleus of a college nine, and renewed interest 
in the game. This freshman team, 1880, defeated 
Lebanons, 36 to 7; St. Johnsburys, 15 to 2; Clare- 
monts, 16 to 8; Central Vermonts, 11 to 3; and 
experienced but one or two defeats. Sutcliffe ’80, 
catcher, was its captain, and Hallman ’80, pitcher. 
At this lime of stagnation in base-ball a game between 
the Blaisdells and Gates House was of enough impor¬ 
tance to have a full score printed in The Dartmouth. 
The nine, which was organized in the autumn of 78, 
was as follows: Thayer ’80, 2 b., captain; Cram ’81, 
c.; Rundlett ’81, p.; Partridge ’82, 1 b.; Mathewson 
’82, 3b.; Ripley ’80, s. s.; Warner ’80, 1. f.; Spring 
’80, c. f.; Newton ’82, r. f. The first games which 
this team played were at Brattleboro. Two games 
were won in the same day by scores of 10 to 9 and 13 
to 2. It was in these games that Rundlett began to 
show his metal. 

Now that a college nine was again in existence, the 
first thought was to cross bats once more with Amherst. 
The Massachusetts nine had been playing match 
games with strong teams during these years of base- 


DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


17 


ball inactivity at Dartmouth, and consequently won 
the game, played after the fall athletic meet in 1878, 
by a one-sided score, 11 to 1. Only seven hits were 
made off Rundlett in this game, but the Dartmouths 
were credited with twelve errors. Partridge distin¬ 
guished himself at first. The players were, Cram ’81, 
c. f.; Webster ’82, 1. f.; Ripley’80, r. f.; Thayer 
’80, 2 b. (captain); Proctor ’79, s. s.; Partridge ’82, 
1 b.; Mathewson ’82, 3 b. ; Donald, c.; Rundlett 

’81, p. 

The first game in the championship series between 
Harvard and Dartmouth was played on the campus 
April 19, 1879. The Harvard boys were received 
with cheering the night before, and the best of feeling 
prevailed. Although Harvard won by 5 to 2 it was a 
great game for Dartmouth. Rundlett struck out 14 
men, and Cram backed him up in good form. There 
are many interesting features in the full score. 


HARVARDS. R. O. lb. P. O A. E. T. B. L. B. 

Nunn, s. .. 1 2 1 0 3 0 1 1 

W. A. Howe, c. 2 2 1 6 3 6 1 0 

Coolidge, 2 b. 1 2 2 3 6 0 5 1 

Folsom, c. f. 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 

J. S. Howe, r.f. 12000000 

Winsor, p. 0 4 1 1 4 2 0 0 

Olmstead, lb. 0 3 1 15 0 1 1 1 

Elliot, 1. f. 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Cohen, 3 b. 04000100 

Totals, 5 27 6 27 16 10 8 4 


3 











18 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Dartmouths. r. o. 1b. p. o a. e. t. b. l. b. 

Thayer, 2b. 1 3 0 4 2 0 0 0 

Ripley, 1. f. 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 

Proctor, s. s. 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 

Partridge, lb. 1 3 0 4 0 1 0 0 

Conant, 3 b. 02130331 

Sutcliffe, c. f. 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 

Cram, c. 0 3 0 14 1 5 0 0 

Mathewson, r. f. 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Rundlett, p. 0 3 0 0 11 3 0 0 


Totals, 2 27 1 27 14 13 3 2 

Ininngs..... 123456789 

Harvard. 01301000 0—5 

Dartmouth. 01100000 0—2 


Struck out—Harvard, 9; Dartmouth, 3. Balls called on Rund¬ 
lett, 74; on Winsor, 53. Strikes called on Rundlett, 19; on 
Winsor, 10. Base on errors—Harvard,'4; Dartmouth, 5. Pass¬ 
ed balls—Cram, 3; Howe, 5. Base on balls—Harvard, 1. Um¬ 
pire, E. F. Hall. Time, 1: 50. 

‘l 

The second game was played at Cambridge and 
resulted also in a defeat for the “ green,” although a 
strong contest was waged, the score standing 2 to 2 at 
the end of five innings. 

Dartmouth gave Brown a genuine surprise by defeat¬ 
ing her 4 to 3, on her own grounds. Of this game 
The Dartmouth said: “ The Browns were astonished, 
astounded, and humiliated, but took the defeat in a 
gentlemanly way.” 

Amherst also fell before the strategic work of Rund¬ 
lett, making only 5 hits, and 2 runs to 4 for Dart¬ 
mouth. 

The successes of this year created a desire for repre¬ 
sentation in some league. Accordingly, in December, 
1879, Dartmouth sent delegates to Springfield, Mass.? 















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FAMOUS BASE-BALL TEAM OF 1880. 

Rundlett, ’8i. Partridge, ’82. Perry, ’80. Cram, ’81. 

Tones. ’80. Ripley. ’8o. Thayer. ’80. Tapt I Wrbcti'd ’80 












DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


19 


who, in convention with delegates from Amherst, 
Brown, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, organized the 
American College Base-Ball Association. Two games 
were scheduled with each college. Among the practice 
games of 1880 was one with the Boston league team, 
resulting 14 to 3 for Boston, in which Bond, the pop¬ 
ular umpire, did the twirling for the Hubites. In the 
championship series, Dartmouth defeated Harvard in 
both games—13 to 5 and 4 to 2—but was a loser at 
the hands of Princeton in warmly contested games, 3 
to 2 and 9 to 4. The other games were,—Dartmouth 
7, Brown 1 ; Brown 5, Dartmouth 1; Dartmouth 
6, Amherst 3 ; Dartmouth 0, Amherst 8. Yale with¬ 
drew on account of a charge of professionalism in her 
nine, hut was readmitted the next year. Princeton won 
the pennant, with Brown second and Dartmouth third. 
Cram of Dartmouth headed the league in batting with 
an average of .656. The public press in general at 
this time agreed that the best three college pitchers in 
the country were Rundlett of Dartmouth, Folsom of 
Harvard, and Lamb of Yale. 

Although the season of 1881 was marked by some 
bad defeats, there are also recorded important victories. 
The first league game was played at Hanover with 
Harvard, and resulted 13 to 11 in favor of the visiting 
nine. This was Gay’s first championship game and 
he was hit rather freely by the heavy batters from 
Cambridge, there being a score of 13 singles, with a 


20 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


total of 23. The home team, however, succeeded in 
getting 16 singles with a total of 19 off Folsom, the 
Harvard wonder. 

Dartmouth’s nine was made up as follows: Gulick 
’83, 3 b. and c.; Rundlett ’81, s. s. and p.; Partridge 
’82, c. and c. f.; Coombs ’83, r. f.; Cushman ’83, 2 b.; 
Howard ’84, 1 b.; Mathewson ’82, c. f. and 3 b.; Gay 
’83, p., and substitute; Webster ’82, 1. f. (captain). 

In the next game Princeton defeated Dartmouth 20 
to 3. Rundlett went into the box for three innings, 
but his arm was too lame and he was compelled to 
retire in favor of Gay. 

Harvard worsted the home team at Cambridge 10 
to 4. Holt pitched this game and held his opponents 
down to 11 hits. Gay played third in place of Gulick. 

The first championship victory is chronicled against 
Brown at Providence, by a score of 9 to 6. This game 
was won by heavy batting and good base running, the 
old stand-bys getting in timely hits. Following closely 
upon this success was another victory, over Amherst, 11 
to 10. Rundlett and Cram, alias “ Duke ” and “ Nate,” 
were the battery. It was a hot game. At the begin¬ 
ning of the ninth inning the score was tied 10 to 10. 
It was then that the old-time Dartmouth pluck was 
felt, and the doughty antagonist was forced to lower 
her colors. Yale was met at Springfield and outplayed 
at every point. The score was 6 to 3. Lamb, the 
star twirler for the “ blue,” was batted out of the box, 


DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


21 


while Rundlett had the Yale men at his mercy, being 
hit for only five singles. Brown defeated the home 
team by a score of 5 to 2, four of Brown’s runs being 
made in the first inning before Rundlett could get his 
arm into working order. 

Amherst was downed again by a score of 6 to 3. 
It was in this game that Coombs and Partridge did 
some of that terrific batting for which they are still 
remembered. Rundlett, too, was in winning form. 

Yale had revenge on Dartmouth in their second 
game, and won 15 to 5. Gay was in the box and was 
poorly supported. It was truly an off day, ten errors 
being made by the losing nine. 

The last championship game of the season was played 
with Princeton on her grounds. It was a fierce con¬ 
test. Dartmouth outbatted and outfielded her opponents, 
but three costly errors (wild throws) lost the game. 
It is a remarkable record that Rundlett led the nine 
in the batting average while doing such fine work in 
the box. 

The make-up of the nine in 1882 was, in batting 
order: Gulick ’83, c.; Partridge ’82,1 b.; Coombs ’83, 
c. f.; Parker ’82, 2 b. (captain); Cushman ’83, s. s.; 
Webster ’82, 1. f.; Gay ’83, r f. and p.; Mathewson 
’82, 3 b.; Dickey, p. and r. f. The season was by 
no means a successful one. The nine was creditably 
strong and lost by narrow margins. A record of the 
games played is as follows: Dartmouth 13, Brown 22, 


22 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


at Providence; Dartmouth 7, Princeton 10, at Hobo¬ 
ken ; Dartmouth 4, Yale 5, at New Haven, a grand 
exhibition of ball playing; Dartmouth 3, Yale 8, at 
New York; Dartmouth 7, Amherst 9, at Amherst, 
Mass.; Dartmouth closed the season by winning a 
notable victory over Harvard, 11 to 10. Gay had 
developed strong points and reminded one of the skill 
of Rundlett. During the last three years, Dartmouth 
had put strong teams into the field, but they failed of 
winning victories by very close contests. The lateness 
of the season at Hanover, and the lack of sufficient prac¬ 
tice games, account for this in a great measure. At 
this dime Harvard began her war upon the New Hamp¬ 
shire college, which ended in Dartmouth’s expulsion 
from the league. Harvard claimed that the games 
played with Dartmouth were so uninteresting that they 
drew no crowds, while in fact the record shows that 
Dartmouth had won more games than Harvard since 
the association was organized. A clipping from The 
Dartmouth reads as follows : “ The move was started 
by Harvard, through a malice which reached its cul¬ 
mination when the ‘ Hay-makers ’ defeated her here, 
last June, and in accordance with a threat made by her 
captain after that game.” Yale stood by Dartmouth, 
asserting that Dartmouth afforded her better games 
than Harvard. Princeton, through hatred toward 
Yale, was allied with Harvard. Amherst deserted 
Dartmouth at the critical point, and Harvard carried 














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F. O. Chellis ’85. 










DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


23 


her end. Although out of any league, Dartmouth did 
not lose any interest in the national game. 

In 1883 the batting order was: Hale ’84, lb.; G. 
Nettleton ’84, 3 b.; Springfield ’84, 1. f.; Cushman ’83, 
s. s., captain; Gay ’83, p.; F. Nettleton ’84, r. f.; Chel- 
lis ’83, 2 b.; Fellows, c. f.; Thomas ’84, c.; Coombs 
and Douglas substitutes. This combination won over 
the Manchester nine, 21 to 6; and over the Keene nine 
three times, 18 to 6, 3 to 1, and 24 to 3. 

The first college game was with Williams, who won 
9 to 5. Amherst, who at this time had so few friends 
among the Hanover boys, was the next to meet the home 
teams. There was present in that game all the spirit 
which had been aroused by the expulsion from the 
league. Nettleton pitched with the determination of 
a veteran, and the nine which had cast its lot with 
those of “higher standing,” lowered its colors to the 
glory of the “ green,” and the joy of the Dartmouth 
contingent. The score was 10 to 6. Williams defeated 
Dartmouth at Hanover, by a score of 4 to 2. A sec¬ 
ond game with Amherst was played at Hanover, and 
resulted in another victory for the nine which “ could 
not give interesting games.” 

Yale won the pennant this year, as the two previous 
years. Harvard, who had made such an unreasonable 
assault upon Dartmouth, stood next to the foot of the 
list. Amherst stood third in the league, but was 
defeated twice by the boys in “ green.” 


24 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


In 1884 Dartmouth was re-admitted to the league, 
but only after making such unreasonable concessions 
as to make it well nigh impossible for her to do justice 
to herself. She was obliged to consent to play both 
games with each Harvard, Yale, and Princeton nine 
on their grounds. 

The personnel of the nine in batting order was: 
Chellis, 2 b.; Springfield, 1. f.; G. O. Nettleton, 3 b.; 
Hale, 1 b.; Fellows, c. f.; McCarthy, s. s.; Nutt, 
r. f.; Thomas, c.; F. H. Nettleton, p. The Tre- 
monts of Boston and the Bowdoins were defeated 
twice each in practice games. The first championship 
game was,, a notable contest. Brown was the oppo¬ 
nent, and at the beginning of the ninth inning the 
score was 3 to 3. Luck favored Brown, and the game 
was hers, 5 to 3. 

The season was one of defeats, and Dartmouth 
footed the list at the end, but in consideration of the 
. disadvantages under which she labored, her record was 
at least creditable. The other games played were: 
Dartmouth 2, Yale 6; Dartmouth 2, Princeton 11; 
Dartmouth 6, Princeton 3; Dartmouth 3, Amherst 
12; Dartmouth 11, Yale 12; Dartmouth 9, Williams 
10 ; and Dartmouth 9, Williams 5. 

The year 1885 is marked as being the last year in 
the old league. It is also remembered for the notable 
victory over Brown. The name of Dillon will always 
he remembered at Dartmouth. It was this year that 


DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


25 


he did his most valiant service for the “green.” 
Dartmouth vs. Harvard was the first game and was 
hotly contested, the latter winning 3 to 2. The nine 
was: Chellis ’83, 2 b.; Weeks ’85, r. f.; Springfield 
’84, 1. f.; Quackenboss ’87, 3 b.; Scruton ’87, c. f.; 
McCarthy ’88, s. s.; Gove ’88, 1 b.; Artz ’88, c.; 
Dillon ’88, p. The work of McCarthy at short was 
especially noticeable, while Dillon held the Harvard 
men down to six singles. 

Dillon found the Amherst men easy prey, striking 
out 16, and allowing only 5 hits. The score was 9 
to 5. 

Yale 15, Dartmouth 6; Dillon pitched. 

Dartmouth 8, Brown 1; only 2 hits were made off 
Dillon’s delivery. 

Harvard 12, Dartmouth 5 ; Dillon pitched. 

Dartmouth 23, Brown 4. This was the cause of 
great rejoicing at Hanover. It was the first cham¬ 
pionship game on the home grounds. Gunderson was 
batted out of the box and Murphy, who took his place, 
was pounded all over the field. The home team 
played a sharp fielding game, ran bases well, but what 
was of great importance they played with confidence. 
Dillon led the batting, and twirled a puzzling ball. 
In the seventh inning he was compelled to leave the 
ground on account of illness, and Brill kept up the 
effective work in the box. Springfield and Quacken¬ 
boss did great work at the bat and in the field. Artz 


26 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


caught a pretty game, Chellis and McCarthy covered 
their territory perfectly. 

The score in full follows : 


Dartmouth. 

A. B. 

R. 

1 B. 

T. B. 

P. o. 

A. 

E. 

Springfield, 1. f. 


5 

3 

6 

2 

2 

0 

Weeks, r. f. 


2 

1 

1 

0 

1 

0 

Hale, lb . 


2 

2 

5 

11 

0 

0 

Quackenboss, 3 b. 

. 6 

4 

3 

7 

0 

0 

1 

Chellis, 2b. 


1 

1 

1 

3 

2 

0 

Scruton, c. f. 


2 

2 

2 

1 

0 

1 

McCarthy, s. S....U.. 


2 

2 

4 

0 

4 

0 

Artz, . . 


2 

2 

3 

10 

2 

1 

Dillon, p . 


3 

3 

8 

0 . 

7 

3 

Brill, p. 


0 

0 

0 

0 

5 

2 


54 

23 

19 

37 

27 

23 

8 

Brown. 

Chase, 2 b. 

Seagrave, lb . 


0 

1 

1 

2 

3 

1 


1 

2 

3 

16 

0 

1 

Hutchinson, s. s . 


0 

2 

2 

1 

5 

3 

Rhett, 1. f .. 


1 

1 

1 

3 

0 

0 

Shedd, c. f . 


0 

0 

0 

2 

0 

2 

Gunderson, p. and c. f . 


1 

0 

0 

0 

1 

1 

Clarke, c . 


1 

1 

1 

3 

3 

6 

Murphy, r. f. and p. 


0 

1 

1 

0 

8 

5 

Cooper, 3 b. 


0 

0 

0 

0 

3 

1 


32 4 8 9 27 23 20 


Innings. 123456789 

Dartmouth... 2 11 010405 0—23 

Brown. 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1— 4 


Earned runs, Dartmouth 5. Home run, Dillon. Two-base 
hits, Hale, Artz, Seagrave. Three-base hits, Dillon, Hale, 
Quackenboss (2). McCarthy. Wild pitches, Dillon, 1, Murphy, 2. 
Passed balls, Clarke, 5. First base on balls, by Dillon, 2; by 
Brill, 2; by Murphy, 3. First base on errors, Dartmouth, 4; 
Brown, 4. Struck out by Dillon, 4; by Brill, 4; by Gunderson, 1; 
by Murphy, 5; Double plays, Springfield and Hale, Springfield 
and Chellis. Umpire, William Wykoff. 

Dartmouth 3, Yale 6; Aiken played centre field 
and Brill pitched. 


























DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


27 


Dartmouth 5, Princeton 15; Dillon played centre 
field and Aiken pitched. 

Dartmouth 5, Princeton 7; Dillon played right 
field, Brill pitched, and Johnson caught. 

Dartmouth 18, Amherst 12; Brill and Johnson, 
battery. The above are the games of the season. 

Dartmouth was forced to resign from the league on 
account of the unreasonable demands made upon her, 
and the season of 1886 was rendered less interesting 
from a lack of that rivalry formerly existing. A 
team was organized, however, and kept in practice 
under the captaincy of F. McCarthy ’86. The vic¬ 
tories of the year were: Dartmouth 3, Beacons of 
Boston 2; Aiken pitched. Dartmouth 10, Boston 
College 2 ; Aiken pitched. Dartmouth 5, Technology 
2; Viau pitched. Dartmouth 16, Trinity 0; Aiken 
pitched. Dartmouth 12, Amherst 4; Aiken pitched. 
Dartmouth 11, University of Vermont 0; Aiken 
pitched. 

The defeats chronicled were Brown 7, Dartmouth 
4 ; and two by Harvard. 

The nine was: F. McCarthy ’86, 2 b. (captain) ; G. 
E. Johnson ’87, c; H. O. Aiken ’87, p.; G. F. Chand¬ 
ler ’88, lb.; A. Quackenboss ’87, 3 b.; E. F. Dillon 
’88, s. s.; W. H. Ranlett ’87,1. f.; W. S. Scruton ’87, 
c. f.; A. L. Artz ’88, r. f.; substitutes, F. L. Keay 
’88, P. F. McManus, and L. Viau. 

Class contests were very strong this year and did 


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much toward developing the base-ball material. One 
of the most exciting of these was between ’87 and ’88, 
in which Aiken and Viau were opposing pitchers, 
resulting in a victory for the former by a score of 3 
to 2. 

FORMATION OF THE NEW LEAGUE. 

At the annual meeting of the delegates to the Inter- 
Collegiate Base-ball association, held at the Massasoit 
House, Springfield, Mass., March 11, 1887, Dart¬ 
mouth was represented by Manager W. H. Dartt 
’87, Captain Quackenboss ’87, and R. N. Fairbanks 
’88. Harvard and Princeton withdrew at once from 
the association, and Yale, although in sympathy with 
Dartmouth, felt obliged to do the same. 

These steps resulted in the formation of a new 
league, composed of Dartmouth, Amherst, Brown, and 
Williams. 

This ushered in a new era in the base-ball annals of 
Dartmouth. A new incentive was given, new enthu¬ 
siasm imparted. Everything was now on a more even 
basis, and what had so long been struggled against 
now seemed a decided advantage. 

The team was organized as follows: Alexander 
Quackenboss ’87, 3 b. (captain) ; G. E. Johnson ’87, c. 
and r. f.; H. O. Aiken ’87, p. and c. f. ; G. F. 
Chandler ’88, 1 b.; W. S. Scruton ’87, c. f. and p.; 





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A. L. Artz ’88, r. f. and c.; H. W. Ranlett ’87, 1. f. ; 
F. L. Keay ’88, 2 b.; C. E. Dascomb ’88, s. s.; and 
A. M. Norton, 3 b. R. N. Fairbanks was manager. 
A larger amount of money was raised than ever before 
and a spring trip was taken. Of the games played 
before the league series, some of the results are: 
Dartmouth 20, Lowell 3; Viau pitched. Harvard 11, 
Dartmouth 6; Viai* pitched. Lynn 24, Dartmouth 
10 ; Aiken pitched. Lynn 4, Dartmouth 2. 

The first league game in the new association was 
with Williams. It was a close contest, although the 
number of errors on each side was a noticeable feature, 
Williams having 19 and Dartmouth 15. Williams, 
however, led in scores, 7 to 6. Aiken was in the box. 
The new rule, of five balls and four strikes, proved 
very troublesome to amateur pitchers. 

The next game was Williams 4, Dartmouth 3; Scru- 
ton and Artz being battery, and Aiken playing centre 
field. 

Brown was an easy foe. Dartmouth took a lead of 
10 to 0 in two innings, and after that loose playing 
marked the contest which resulted in a victory for the 
“ green,” 31 to 12. Aiken did effective work in the 
box. Brown succeeded in making 29 errors, while 
Dartmouth was a little behind with 18. 

Again Dartmouth won over Brown, 25 to 8. This, 
also, was a loose game. Scruton did the twirling, 
allowing a total of 12 hits, while the Brown pitcher 


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was hit for a total of 32. The errors were : Dart¬ 
mouth 11, Brown 27. 

There was blood in the eyes of the Dartmouth boys 
when Amherst made her first appearance in Hanover, 
under the arrangement of the new league. The his¬ 
tory of the past three years was vividly in mind. 
Scruton’s terrific speed was greater than ever. Norton 
and the famous “ Zac ” Chandler were on hand with 
the bat. Artz stood behind the home plate like a stone 
wall. Turner, Amherst’s pitcher, was batted out of 
the box, and Judson was put in, only to be hit with 
equal freedom, both receiving 18 with a total of 24, 
while Amherst made only 3 off Scruton. 

The second game with the same nine was even more 
decisive, the score being 26 to 7 in Dartmouth’s favor. 
Aiken and Scruton shared the honors as pitchers. 
Keay,, who had received an injury in the previous 
game, played in remarkably fine form. In the eighth 
inning, after two men were out, the Dartmouth boys 
ran around the bases until they were tired, and only 
stopped from exhaustion after the circuit of the bases 
had been made 13 times. 

Scruton was at his height as a pitcher at this time. 
The next game he won from Williams, by a score of 
5 to 4. Dascomb distinguished himself as a heavy 
hitter in this game. Williams was again defeated, in one 
of the most memorable contests in the history of base¬ 
ball, 8 to 7, Scruton and Artz doing the battery work. 


DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


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A vivid description of this game from the pen of 
William Byron Forbush ’88 has become very popular, 
and we quote it here in full: 

“It was the last game of the series, both colleges 
had beaten every opponent, and each had won a game 
from the other. This game decided the champion¬ 
ship for the year. The game was to be played on 
the Wheelock college grounds. It was a sunny after¬ 
noon in early June. The graceful elms and maples 
that line the campus had put on their loyal college 
color of brightest green, and the sunlight sifted down 
through them upon a carpet of still brighter color. It 
is on such days as this, and at such a season, when 
the air is full of fragrance of flowers and songs 
of birds and lazily floating clouds, that the weary stu¬ 
dent is most tempted to leave his narrow study and 
wander up the hill behind the college halls and there 
let the afternoon drift away in dreams of the mysterious 
days to come. But none of the students were dream¬ 
ing such dreams to-day. Even the hardest old 1 plug- 
ger ’ in the institution had left his den this afternoon, 
and, coming out in the sunlight with a bewildered 
expression on his face, was hailed with cheers by his 
assembled classmates. The college halls were empty, 
except one room, where the base-ball nine, surrounded 
by their most devoted friends, were putting on their 
suits. Every one was on the campus, and this broad 
expanse, extending in front of the old halls, was bright 
with life and color. 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


“ The game was to be called at three, hut before one 
the street around the campus was full of teams, and 
along the country roads for miles, could be seen vehicles 
of all descriptions, converging toward the great event. 
Before two o’clock the temporary grand stand was 
filled, mostly with ladies of the faculty and town, for 
the average college man is too restless during a hall 
game to be able to sit still. Upon the sidewalk under 
the trees was a continuously moving stream of people. 
Some were students, who strode gaily along, swinging 
their light canes, or puffing their short pipes. Some 
were nurse-girls or maids, who cast shy glances toward 
the students, which were for the most part cautiously 
returned. 

“ Gradually the space in the campus was all this time 
filling with the boys, who were seated on light camp 
chairs and shaded by umbrellas. Everybody was 
ready long before the hands of the college clock pointed 
to three. It was singularly quiet, at least to what 
came after. The only sounds heard were the hum of 
conversation and the shrill cries of the little boys who 
went around yelling ‘ Score cards! Score cards ! ’ 

“ Suddenly there was a murmur of suppressed excite¬ 
ment among the students in the field. Several rose to 
their feet, and I heard one say, ‘ The Fern Sems have 
come! ’ It was the whole body of girls from a neigh¬ 
boring female seminary*, who had come up to watch 


* Tilden. 


DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


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the game—and the boys. Soon four great covered 
wagons, decked with ribbons, drew up to the campus, 
and they were immediately surrounded by students. 
But the joy of the occasion was marred by the fact 
that in every carriage, like an anxious hen brooding 
over a flock of restless chickens, was one of the lady 
teachers. This advent was the means of a strife 
between love and war, for the girls were not allowed 
to leave the wagons, and there was a very poor view 
of the game from this point, so that the student who 
saw the girls did not see the game. The girls were 
left a good deal alone that day. 

“ At length I heard a desultory cheer from the lower 
part of the grand stand, which soon grew into a tem¬ 
pestuous roar, and looking down the field I saw that 
our boys were coming upon the ground. There they 
were, noble fellows, in their old white suits, which 
already bore the grass stains of many a victorious 
game. The boys ran lightly out to their respective 
positions, and the pitcher, standing by the home plate, 
batted the ball to each by turns. What a light little 
fellow he is! No one would think he could send the 
sphere whirling over the plate for two hours, but he is 
all nerve and sinew. Do you see that giant standing 
on the first base, with the great, clumsy gloves on his 
hands? You don’t know how nimbly he will leap 
three feet in air when the careless third baseman sends 
the ball far above his head! He may not be a very 

3 


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good scholar, this giant, but he can play ball! Among 
the infielders who are picking up grounders, you notice 
the second baseman. The out-fielders are so far out 
you can hardly see their faces. 

“ In about ten minutes the cheering breaks out again, 
but not as it did before. It is only perfunctory cheer¬ 
ing this time. The Berkshire College nine are com¬ 
ing upon the field. The Wheelock men retire to give 
the others a chance to become, familiar with the 
ground. Now every college man’s eyes are wide open, 
for you can judge a nine pretty well by its practice 
work. It is evident that it is to be no one-sided contest 
to-day. 

“Finally a new sound breaks upon the ear. The 
college clock is striking three. The umpire steps out 
and beckons with his hand, all the players in the 
field run in, and all things are made ready. The 
Berkshire men have the toss and are at the bat. All 
of a sudden it is very quiet. The pitcher rolls the 
ball lovingly in his hands, then throws it like lightning 
over the base. Before the umpire has had time to cry 
out “ One ball ” there is a sharp crack in the air and 
the ball goes flying down the field. The batsman is at 
first in a second, and it is a hit. A feeble cheer rises 
from the region near the catcher. It is the manager 
and scorer of the Berkshire nine testifying their ap¬ 
proval. It proves too soon to cheer, however, for the 
runner is cut out at second by the watchful Wheelock 








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DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


35 


catcher and has to come in. The next two strike out, 
and half the inning is over. Now the Wheelock men 
are at bat, and as the centre-fielder, who is the first, 
comes out, he is hailed with an ovation. The Berk¬ 
shire pitcher is a little nervous, and gives him his base 
on balls. The Wheelock captain runs down to first 
to coach him. “Now you’re off, ste-ady, ma-ke him 
give you a good one, keep your eye on the ball he 
can’t get one over the — Go /” this is what you hear 
in the silence of the game. The next man strikes 
out. The third man makes a hit up in the air—a 
cheer is stopped by the running of the Berkshire 
third baseman to catch it. Some one starts to yell, 
but he is hissed down. “ Give the man a chance! ” 
some one says, angrily. Ah, he has caught it, and the 
inning is over. Nothing to nothing—not much to 
judge by yet, except that it is going to be a good 
game. And it was a good game, for so it went on for 
five innings and each side had made one score. Men 
began to move about uneasily. It was well to have it 
close; but, oh, if we were only one ahead! 

“ It was the first half of the sixth inning, and Chand¬ 
ler, the great first baseman, was at bat. How much 
bigger he seemed to look than usual, as he stood there 
alone by the home plate ! How that long club, wielded 
by those brawny arms, would send the ball, if they 
could but hit one corner of it. But Chandler was 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


inclined to try too much for hard hits, and the pitcher, 
who had learned his weaknesses, gave him little, slow 
balls at which he struck so fiercely and so vainly that 
it seemed as if he would swing his arms off. But now 
his spunk was getting up, and this time, as he strode to 
his place, there was a look on his face which said, 
‘ This time or never.’ As he stepped up, somebody 
shouted ‘ A two-bagger this time, old fellow.’ 

“ He struck at the first ball. The club cracked, but 
held, and the ball went flying. It was one of those 
low, deceptive hits that don’t look as if they were going 
very far. The short stop jumped up to catch it, but 
he could n’t quite reach it. The left fielder thought he 
had it, but he had moved too near, it was over his 
head. All the fielders started to get it. It reached 
the campus fence and bounded over, it passed the cor¬ 
ner of one of the halls, and then was lost from sight, 
the fielders after it. Meanwhile, Chandler, in his slow 
and ponderous way, was making the rounds of the 
bases. He was so heavy he had to knock the ball far¬ 
ther than any one else to make any kind of a hit at all. 
The whole college was on its feet, the yells were deaf¬ 
ening, umbrellas and hats were flying in air, and as the 
great fellow came staggering in home he was sur¬ 
rounded by a mob of apparent maniacs, who grasped 
his hand and nearly tore him to pieces. He had time 
to run around the bases twice before the fielders came 
back. They could n’t find the ball, they never found 


DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


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it. It was the longest hit ever made on the grounds. 
The fellows were never tired of telling of it. There 
even grew up legends about it; it was said that its 
velocity was so great that it cleared the world entirely 
and shot into space, and when some of the astronomi¬ 
cal students the next year discovered what seemed, to 
be a new star, it was at once christened Chandler’s 
comet. Now the fun began. The next man made a 
two-base hit. The boys had already yelled themselves 
hoarse, and now they rested and yelled by detachments. 
I don’t know that I have told you that the boys were 
seated by classes on the field, and that each class had 
its champion yeller, who started each cheer. By 
cheering in turn they could cheer all the time. There 
was one, the senior cheer-master, whose voice was 
noted. It was n’t so very loud in conversation or in 
recitation, but on the ball ground it was ear-piercing. 
He could outlast three other leaders, but even his 
powers were taxed to-day. 

“At the end of the inning the score was four 
to one. Every Wheelock man began to breathe 
freely. The next half hour was critical. The interest 
was such that men even forgot to cheer. It was three 
innings of sharp, perfect playing. Slowly but surely, 
and without any one great incident either, the tide 
turned. One by one the score ran up for the Berk¬ 
shire men. The plucky scorer and manager had 
plenty of opportunities to cheer, and well they im- 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


proved them. Wheelock was playing good ball, but 
the hits and brilliant plays did not seem to count. 
Berkshire did not make any long hits, but oh, they 
were so lucky! Neither side had made an error in 
the whole game so far. 

“ It was the eighth inning, and the score was five to 
four. It was too close for comfort, surely. At length, 
amid great enthusiasm from the Wheelock men, it was 
nine innings and five to five. 

“ I wish I could stop to give you every play that took 
place after this. I am sure such another game was never 
played before or since. Berkshire was at bat, their 
centre fielder made a hit, our short stop stopped it, 
fumbled it, then sent it speeding to second base. Ball 
and runner seemed to touch the second baseman at 
once. Both sent him flying, but he held to the ball. 
The runner declared that the ball did not touch him, 
the baseman declared it did. The umpire called the 
man safe. The crowd rose in a body and roared out 
their disapproval. Hundreds were ready to swear 
that they saw the ball touch him. The umpire 
remained firm, the crowd surged around him, and 
seemed ready to tear him limb from limb. The game 
stopped, the captains came up and excitedly argued 
the case. Time dragged on. The umpire reiterated 
his decision. The Wheelock captain seemed willing 
to forfeit the game, hut the hoys cried, ‘ Go on, we 
will beat them twice.’ So the game went on. I sup- 


DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


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pose the point will never really be decided, but the 
fact that the umpire had once lived in the town of 
Berkshire made us believe that he was somewhat 
prejudiced. This man got in home, making the score 
six to five, and the next three men w^ere put out, 
though one of them got as far as third base. Now it 
was Wheelock’s last chance, and every man scanned 
his score card closely to see who was at bat. It was 
a gloomy prospect, for it was at the end of the bat¬ 
ting list. Some gave up the game as lost, but none 
left the field. It was long after supper time, but 
nobody knew it. The field was growing a trifle dusky 
with shadows. The interest was now most intense, 
men told me afterward that they were as much 
exhausted as though they had undergone a fit of sick¬ 
ness. It was perfectly silent, save for the umpire’s 
calls. 4 One strike, two strikes,—three strikes, and 
out!’ How discouraging! Every man held his breath 
now. 4 One-out.’ 4 All is lost,’ some one whis¬ 

pered. Artz, the catcher, was at bat. He was a silent, 
impassive fellow, who had stood calmly and quietly 
behind the bat during all the game, and had not let a 
ball, hardly, of any kind go past him. But he was a 
very poor batter. It seemed mere luck if he hit the 
ball. Two strikes, and he had not hit it. One ball 
more, and he just touched it enough to knock a slow 
grounder to short stop. Every man groaned. But the 
short stop missed it, and Artz was safe at first. A 



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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


few relieved themselves by cheering. One more man 
at bat. But every one sighed when they saw him. It 
was the left fielder. He was only a passable player, 
and he had not made a hit all summer—I doubt if he 
ever had. ‘ One strike,’ see the fellows cringe ; ‘ two 
strikes,’ numbers turned away their heads that they 
might not behold what followed. It seems hours 
before the next ball was pitched and centuries before 
it passed the plate. What is that?—a hit! Ranlett 
made a hit ? But see, the field is all alive. The 
whole outfield is chasing the hall. Artz has gained 
second. Ranlett has gained first. Artz is at third 
and Ranlett at second, and now Artz is almost home 
and Ranlett is at his heels. The ball is coming in, too ; 
hut both are safe, and the college is closing in on the 
diamond. Safe home !—no need to ask the umpire,— 
and the game is won ! 

“ And now the diamond is full of maddened forms 
dancing up and down; some are yelling, some weeping, 
all are hatless. One great student seizes another, who 
is leaping in the air for joy, and, as he strains him in 
his arms, discovers that he is a professor. And now the 
victorious champions are lifted on a score of willing 
shoulders and carried to their rooms, the college bell is 
rung, and the great green pennant is raised to the bel¬ 
fry tower. After supper the celebration is begun by 
songs on the campus fence, and as soon as it is really 
dark a bonfire is built in the campus, and every man’s 













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DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


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unprotected woodpile is levied on for the purpose. 
The whole college is out again. Soon a procession is 
formed, with a band at the head of it, and the ball 
nine is dragged in a great chariot by three hundred 
pairs of hands around the diamond. The man who 
made the winning hit wears a new silk hat, just pre¬ 
sented to him. Every player has to make a speech 
and be cheered, and everybody is happy. Then a line is 
formed again and marches through the principal streets. 
A stop is made at the house of every member of the fac¬ 
ulty, and he must make a speech and be cheered also. 
At length the bonfire burns low, and the cheering ceases 
to silence, and it is the dead of night. That college 
cheer,—how much it brings back to me! Its savage 
‘ wah-hoo-wah ’ rings in my ears, even as I heard it 
when last I gave it to bid my classmates farewell, in 
those days when college dreams were all there was of 
life and when base-ball was its noblest conflict.” 

The full score of the game follows: 


Dartmouth. a. b. r. 1b. t. b. s. b. p. o. a. e. 

Aiken, c. f. 53330400 

Quackenboss, 3 b. 5 1 1 11 2 1 0 

Keay, 2 b. 5 1 2 2 1 3 7 2 

Chandler, lb. 5 0 1 4 0 17 0 0 

Norton, r. f. 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 

Dascomb, s. .. 5 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 

Scruton, p. 5 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 

Artz, .. 4 1 0 0 1 4 6 0 

Ranlett, 1. f. 5 1 2 3 0 3 0 0 


Totals. 43 8 10 14 4 33 26 2 













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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Williams. 

Duryea, 2 b.» 

Wilson, p... 

Burden, lb. 

Clark, c. 

Perry, 1. f. 

Blackinton, 3 b. 

Van Warmer, r. f. 

Brown, c. f. 

Campbell, s. s. 


Totals. 45 7 11 17 4 *32 19 4 

Innings... 123456789 10 11 

Dartmouth. 1000030200 2—8 

Williams. 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 1 0 0 1—7 


Earned runs—Dartmouth, 3; Williams, 4. Two-base hits— 
Ranlett. Home runs—Clark, 2; Chandler. Base on balls—by 
Williams, 2. Wild pitches—Wilson, 3. Passed balls—Clark, 2; 
Artz, 1. Struck out—by Scruton, 8; Wilson, 5. Double play— 
Wilson and Burden. ^Winning run made with only two men 
out. Time, 2 hours, 35 minutes. Umpire, R. C. Walbridge. 


It was a jolly crowd of Dartmouth men that rode 
out on the coach to the Amherst base-ball grounds to 
see their team knock Turner out o£ the box for the 
third time this year .—The Dartmouth. 

Amherst had been woefully defeated at Hanover, 
but she had hoped to retrieve some lost laurels at 
home. Dartmouth, however, had her eye on the pen¬ 
nant, and the yell, so often heard since, was most 
appropriate at that time : 

“ Proudly the pennant waves 
Out of reach of Williams braves. 

If Amherst would be in the race, 

Surely, she must take a brace, 

For Dartmouth is a hustler.” 


5 3 2 2 
5 0 0 0 
5 111 
5 2 2 8 
5 0 11 
5 111 
5 0 11 
5 0 2 2 
5 0 11 


12 2 0 

0 2 11 0 

2 15 0 0 

0 4 3 0 

0 3 0 0 

0 4 0 2 

0 0 0 0 

0 10 0 

113 2 


This game resulted in a score of 21 to 7, for the 
















DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


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“ green.” Quackenboss made 4, with a total of 8, hits, 
and Keay 4, with a total of 6. 

Amherst put in Haskell to pitch the last game, and 
he was more effective, although he was out-classed, and 
lost by a score of 14 to 12. 

Dartmouth won the pennant, with Williams second, 
Amherst third, and Brown footing the list. 

The Boston Herald , at that time, said, “ The Dart- 
mouth-Williams series is the most remarkable inter¬ 
collegiate series ever played. Each team made 22 
runs, and each game was won by one score. Dart¬ 
mouth sent 146 men to bat, who made 28 hits, with a 
total of 36, and Williams sent 147 men to bat, who 
made 34 hits, with a total of 43. The errors were,— 
Dartmouth, 28; Williams, 33.” 

The opening of the season of 1888 was most encour¬ 
aging. The material at hand was fully as good as that 
of the preceding season, and the practice games 
showed great strength. R. N. Fairbanks was the man¬ 
ager, and F. L? Keay, 2 b., captained these men: 

C. E. Dascomb ’88, 1. f.; E. Williams ’90, s. s.; C. T. 
McCarthy ’88, c. f.; G. F. Chandler ’88, lb.; A. L. 
Artz ’88, c.; A. J. Ranney ’92, c.; A. H. Baehr, p.; 

D. P. Jones ’90, r. f.; G. Stark, p.; and J. A. Cunning¬ 
ham ’88,3 b. Trinity took Brown’s place in the league. 

The first championship game of the season was a 
victory over Amherst, 7 to 2. Keay’s fielding at sec¬ 
ond and Dascomb’s batting were features of the contest. 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Other games ‘were,—Dartmouth, 5 ; Amherst, 3; 
Stark pitched. Dartmouth, 19; Trinity, 3; Baehr 
pitched. Dartmouth, 8; Trinity, 1; Stark pitched. 
Dartmouth, 6; Williams, 9; Baehr was batted hard, 
six runs being made in the eighth inning. Dartmouth, 
2; Williams, 7; Stark pitched. Dartmouth hatted 
more heavily than Williams, but played in bad luck. 
Dartmouth, 4; Trinity, 1; Stark pitched a great 
game. Dartmouth, 9; Trinity, 5; Stark pitched. 
Williams, 6; Dartmouth, 4; one of the hardest fought 
contests. Neither side scored until the sixth. Ranney 
held Stark in fine form. Perhaps the poorest exhibi¬ 
tion of ball playing in Dartmouth’s record, up to this 
time, was a defeat at the hands of Williams by a score 
of 20 to 1. Errors were plenty on Dartmouth’s side 
and base hits on Williams’s. Williams was, at this 
period of the season, practically sure of the pennant. 
Dartmouth, however, won two more victories (13 to 1 
and 12 to 2) over Amherst and came in second in the 
race, with Amherst and Trinity following in the order 
named. Although the result of this season’s base-ball 
interests elicited much critical comment, and all the 
Dartmouth contingent would have been glad to wel¬ 
come another pennant, it must be remembered that 
Williams had an exceptionally strong nine, and doubt¬ 
less deserved the honors which it won. 

An interesting class series was played in the fall of 
’88, in which the medical school and state college also 














F. F. Keay ’88. 















DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL. 


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participated. Archie J. Ranney, the great back-stop, 
pitched for the “ Medics ” in a game with the “ N. H. 
C. A. M. A.” and struck out 15 men. He was, 
however, poorly supported, and lost the game by a 
score of 3 to 1. Viau was the opposing pitcher and 
struck out 10 men. 

In the spring of 1889 a team was made up as fol¬ 
lows, under the management of C. E. Moulton : D. P. 
Jones ’90, r. f. (captain); E. Williams ’90, s. s.; 
John Abbott ’91, 3 b.; F. W. Woodcock ’91, p.; M. 
Gault ’90, 1 b.; A. J. Ranney ’92, c.; W. Norton ’91, 
2. b.; P. Viau ’91, c. f.; F. C. Hoyt ’90, 1. f.; and G. 
Stark, p. Baehr also did some pitching. 

As last season, the team showed remarkable strength 
in its practice games. Brown was overwhelmingly 
defeated by the remarkable score of 35 to 4, Baehr 
doing the pitching, with Jones behind the bat. Har¬ 
vard was worsted on her own grounds, 6 to 4, Dart¬ 
mouth having the same battery as in the Brown game. 
In the second game with Harvard, Viau pitched and 
lost, 9 to 4. Ranney caught an errorless game. Wil¬ 
liams defeated Dartmouth, 11 to 1, in the first cham¬ 
pionship game. Wilson, the Williams pitcher, was 
invincible. The Dartmouth boys played rather loosely 
and Baehr did not come up to his best work. Gault 
put up a beautiful game at first. Hoyt and Norton 
fielded their positions well. 

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game. He had the Williams sluggers at his mercy and 
was well supported by Ranney. Wilson was out of 
form and gave his opponents a total of 16 hits. 

Dartmouth 6, Trinity 1, at Hanover. Stark and 
Ranney were the battery. Woodcock played centre 
field. 

Dartmouth 10, Trinity 4. Woodcock and Jones 
did the battery work. 

Dartmouth met Amherst on the home campus and 
was defeated 7 to 3. Sexton and Walbridge were 
thought to be professionals, and consequently the game 
was protested. Amherst retaliated by protesting 
against Ranney, Stark, and Gault, and hence the whole 
question of professionalism was dropped. It is no 
more than justice to say, nevertheless, that the Dart¬ 
mouth men were bona fide students. 

In the second game Woodcock and Sexton, who have 
had such brilliant careers since, were pitted against 
each other as pitchers. Sexton won the game, 5—2. 

Dartmouth 11, Trinity 2 ; Stark and Ranney were 
the battery. 

Dartmouth 10, Trinity 4; Woodcock, Jones, and 
Ranney were the battery. 

Dartmouth 3, Williams 6; battery, Woodcock and 
Jones. 

Dartmouth 3, Williams 11; Stark and Jones, battery. 
Abbott and Gault fielded their positions finely. 

Williams won the pennant. 


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In 1890 G. B. Stavers managed the team. A. J. 
Ranney was its captain and the star player. It was 
this year that he did such terrific batting, having an 
average of 41.9. The other members of the team were : 
John Abbott ’91, 3 b.; W. D. Downs, s. s. ; M. Gault 
’90, 1 b.; W. Norton ’91, 2 b.; W. S. Thompson ’92, 
1. f.; E. Williams ’90, c. f.; D. P. Jones ’90, r. f.; M. 
Shurtleff ’92, p.; Hartshorn D. M. C. ’93, p.; H. W. 
Harland, p. 

The first game was played at Cambridge, April 18, 
with Harvard. Dartmouth had had but little out-of- 
door practice and therefore was very unsteady. Baehr 
pitched an excellent game, while Norton and Downs 
did the best fielding. The final score was 21 to 12 in 
Harvard’s favor. The second day Harvard won, 11 to 
6. Harland pitched a strong game, holding his men 
down to 7 with a total of 12 hits. Jones was in 
his old-time form behind the bat. Scruton played 
right field. 

The first game on the home campus was a victory 
over U. V. M., by a score of 15 to 7. Heavy batting 
and loose fielding were the features. 

Two games were played with John F. Morrill’s team 
at Brattleboro, Vt. The first resulted 10—7 against, 
and the second 14—6 in favor of, Dartmouth. Har¬ 
land and Ranney, Hartshorn and Ranney, were the 
batteries respectively. 

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championship game. Two games were scheduled, but 
the first day’s game was called after two innings on 
account of rain. The Dartmouth nine played fairly 
well, but failed to bunch hits. It is interesting, how¬ 
ever, to note that six runs were made in the fourth 
inning, Williams having become what is commonly 
known as “ rattled.” In the sixth Harland injured 
his knee while sliding home, and Hartshorn took his 
place. Williams team was made up as follows : Mapes, 
r. f.; Hotchkiss, 1 b.; Cox, c.; Brown, 2 b.; Hollister, 
c. f.; Arthur, 1. f.; Spaulding, p.; Luce, s. s.; Camp¬ 
bell, 3 b. 

At Hanover, Dartmouth had the satisfaction of 
defeating Amherst in two successive games. In the 
first the home team made its runs in this manner : 
Williams and Abbott made singles and Ranney cleared 
the bases with a fine three-bagger, himself scoring on 
a short passed ball. In the third inning, Jones and 
Ranney made singles, Gault a double, and a passed 
ball cleared the bases. 

In the fifth, Downs got first on a fumble by short, stole 
second, and scored on Ranney’s two-bagger. Thomp¬ 
son made a single, stole second, and scored on Lacey’s 
error. In the ninth, Jones went the rounds on errors. 
Harland and Ranney did star battery work. 

Amherst’s team was made up as follows : Burns, 2 
b.; Gould, c. f.; Hunt, c.; Sullivan, 3 b.; Cutler, r. f.; 
Lacey, 1 b.; Taylor, s. s.; McFadden, 1. f.; Hare, p. 


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The second game was marked by still heavier bat¬ 
ting. This game will be remembered because of the 
fact that eight runs were made in a single inning — 
the fifth. Amherst led, 1 to 0. Thompson made a 
single, stole second, and scored on sacrifice hits by 
Norton and Harland. Two men were out. Williams 
and Gault walked up to the plate and sent out home 
runs; Abbott, Ranney, Thompson, and Norton made 
singles, and thus it was kept up until the circuit of the 
bases had been made eight times. Harland and Ran¬ 
ney did fine battery work. The score was 12 to 9, in 
Dartmouth’s favor. 

Dartmouth went up to Burlington and suffered a 
defeat at the hands of U. V. M., 16 to 8. The visitors 
were over-confident and played carelessly. In the 
second game, however, they redeemed themselves by 
winning, 11 to 2. Harland and Ranney, Hartshorn 
and Jones, were the batteries. 

At Amherst, Dartmouth was defeated twice, and in 
the two remaining Williams games the honors were 
divided. 

THE SEASON OF 1891. 

The season of 1891 found the college lacking in the 
best base-ball material, but the management set dili¬ 
gently at work and developed a creditable nine, though 
not up to championship standard. C. G. Dubois ’91 
manager, and John Abbott, captain. The only 
4 


was 


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pitcher was Shurtleff ’92, who, though a skilful man, 
could not be expected to pitch all the games and win. 
The games on the spring trip resulted,—New Haven 6, 
Dartmouth 3; Dartmouth 6, Pennsylvania 9; Dart¬ 
mouth 11, Columbia Athletic Club 5; Dartmouth 4, 
University of Virginia 18; Dartmouth 0, University 
of Virginia 5. Harvard defeated Dartmouth 10 to 
0 and 5 to 1; Brown 14 to 7. 

The first championship game was played under great 
disadvantages. The team had been up since four 
o’clock in the morning on account of losing a train. 
Shurtleff was wide of the plate. The score was 21 to 
8, in favor of Williams. The make-up of the team 
this year was,—John Abbott, 3 b. (captain); Merrill 
Shurtleff, p.; M. Barry ’93, c.; W. S. Thompson ’92, 
lb.; F. P. Tuxbury ’93, 1 b.; L. Eaton D. M. C. ’92, 
2 b.; E. A. Baehr ’93, 2 b.; J. L. Ferguson ’93, s. s.; 
C. P. F. Joyce D. M. C. ’91, 1. f.; A. C. Heath ’93, 
c. f.; E. B. Weston ’93, r. f. 

The next day the contest was very close—5 to 4 for 
Williams, the Dartmouth men leading until the last 
half of the ninth. 

Amherst was at length given a little revenge by 
defeating her dreaded rival, 10 to 1 and 10 to 0. 

The first home game was with Williams. It was 
close and exciting, until the last. Shurtleff pitched a 
strong game. Loose playing in the last two innings 
allowed the Berkshire men to make a lead of 7 to 3. 










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The next day Shurtleff went into the box again, and 
won his game, 15 to 10. Abbott, Eaton, and Heath 
batted terrifically. 

Dartmouth lost to Amherst on the home grounds, 7 
to 11, and 3 to 4. There was little in this season’s 
ball record to rejoice over, but the management did 
its best, and were well supported by the loyal Dart¬ 
mouth men who saw victory ahead. 

THE CHAMPIONSHIP. 

The year 1892 was marked by brilliant successes on 
the diamond. J. J. Rollins ’92 was one of the best 
managers that the college ever had. This is not said 
because his nine was victorious simply, but because 
from the very first he was judicious and enterprising 
in his efforts. Merrill Shurtleff, the captain, deserves 
equal praise. He insisted that his men should train, 
and called upon the patriotism of the college to aid 
him to this end. 

The first game of the spring trip was with Princeton. 
The score was even until Hellen ’95 was put into the 
box for a trial. He was hit freely, and the final score 
was 12 to 2. Lehigh defeated Dartmouth, 7 to 4. 

Dartmouth easily won over Georgetown University, 
19 to 5. 

On account of the crippled condition of the Dart¬ 
mouth men, the University of Virginia game was a 
farce resulting 11 to 2, for University of Virginia. 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


The Columbia Athletic Club was worsted, 8 to 3. 
Shurtleff pitched a strong game. 

Another victory gave Dartmouth 5, Georgetown 1. 

Probably the greatest college game that O’Connor 
D. M. C. ’94 ever pitched was the University of Penn¬ 
sylvania game. He had the men entirely at his mercy. 
Four scratch hits were made, but none of the opponents 
scored. Ranney was on his usual metal. Bergen was 
the opposing pitcher. The score was 8 to 0, in favor 
of the “ green.” 

Dartmouth defeated Trinity, 13 to 2. 

On the second practice trip, Dartmouth defeated 
Phillips Andover, 15 to 8, Smalley doing the pitching. 
A remarkable game was contested between Dartmouth 
and Harvard. O’Connor and Ranney disposed of 13 
men, while the boasted Jack Highlands struck out 
only seven. At the beginning of the seventh inning, 
the Dartmouth men led 3 to 1; then Harvard made 
two runs, which, with another in the ninth, gave them 
the lead, 4 to 3. 

Shurtleff was unable to duplicate O’Connor’s work in 
the game the next day, while Howe was more effective 
than Highlands. The score was 6 to 0. 

Dartmouth defeated Phillips Exeter, 9 to 2, O’Connor 
and Shurtleff doing the pitching. 

The championship season opened at Williamstown, 
where two successive defeats were received. Nothing 
could have been more unexpected at Hanover, or 


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among the public in general. It has been current 
belief among many that these games were given away, 
but the writer is positive of the fact that the nine did 
its utmost to secure a victory in each game. In the 
first game, the score was 3 to 0, O’Connor and Shurt- 
leff sharing the work in the box. Both pitchers, also, 
took part in the second game, which resulted 5 to 4. 

The next game was the cause of bon-fires and cele¬ 
brations at Hanover. Dartmouth defeated Harvard on 
the campus, 4 to 3, with Highlands in the box. The 
game wa'fe close and exciting. O’Connor pitched a 
puzzling ball, and received fine support from Ranney. 
Burdette batted heavily, and Eaton fielded perfectly. 

The score by innings : 


Innings . 123456789 

Dartmouth . 00000220 0—4 

Harvard. 01001001 0—3 


Earned runs—Dartmouth, 2; Harvard, 1. Three base hits— 
Burdette and Frothingham. Sacrifice hit—Cook. Stolen bases 
—Burdette (3), O’Connor, Dickinson, Upton. First base on balls 
—Burdette, Cook, Hallowell. First base on errors—Dartmouth, 
3; Harvard, 2. Left on bases—Dartmouth, 5; Harvard, 6. Struck 
out—Tuxbury, O’Connor (2), Griflin, Joyce, Clagett (2), Eaton (2), 
Brown, Mason (2), Hallowell, Frothingham, Hovey, Dickinson, 
Corbett, Highlands, Payne (2). Time, 1 hour, 50 minutes. Umpire 
—Mullen. 


The next day the Harvards won 5 to 0, Bates and 
Shurtleff being the opposing pitchers. 

Dartmouth defeated Amherst at Amherst, 4 to 2. 
O’Connor did his best work. Joyce stole bases finely, 





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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


and Burdette distinguished himself by catching a hard 
foul fly. 

The second game was an easier victory for the 
“ green,” 6 to 1. O’Connor struck out fourteen men, 
while Colby weakened. 

Dartmouth 9, Williams 0 ; at Hanover. O’Connor 
was the hero of the day. After he had struck out ten 
of the first eleven men to bat, they tried to bunt the 
hall, but this they were scarcely able to do. Ranney 
batted terrifically, and fielded his position like a 
veteran. It is the only game in the history of the 
league in which Dartmouth shut a team out without a 
single hit or base on balls. 

The second game resulted 4 to 0 in favor of Dart¬ 
mouth, O’Connor doing the pitching. 

Amherst was easily forced to lower her colors. 
O’Connor and Stearns were the opposing pitchers. 

The closing game of the season decided a champion¬ 
ship for Dartmouth. Amherst was entirely outplayed. 
Colby and Sullivan both tried to pitch, hut were inef¬ 
fectual. The game closed with a pretty double play 
by Griffin, Tuxbury, and Clagett. Score, 8 to 1. 

The participants in championship games this year 
were Merrill Shurtleff, p. (captain) ; F. H. O’Connor 
D. M. C. ’94, p.; A. J. Ranney, c.; F. P. Tuxbury 
’93, 1 b.; E. L. Griffin ’95, 2 b.; H. H. Burdette ’95, 
3 b.; J. L. Ferguson ’93, s. s.; C. P. F. Joyce D. M. 
C., 1. f.; L. Eaton D. M. C. ’92, r. f.; W. H. Clagett 


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’95, c. f.; E. K. Hall ’92, c. f.; E. L. Bell D. M. C. 
’93, c. f.; H. J. Brown ’95, s. s. 

An unusually fine reserve team, this season, man- 
aged by H. C. Pearson ’93, was made up as fol¬ 
lows: F. L. Keay, 2 b. (captain); F. P. Claggett 
’94, 1 b. ; F. G. Folsom ’95, 3 b.; H. J. Brown, 
s. s.; F. P. Dodge ’95, 1. f.; W. A. Foster ’95, 
c. f.; G. W. Boutelle ’93, r. f.; A. E. Carlton ’95, 
p.; J. Hellen ’93, p.; F. L. Smalley ’94, p.; E. B. 
Weston ’93, c. 

The last base-ball season (1893) has in it many 
phases to regret. The material at hand was certainly 
as good as that of the preceding season, but the pen¬ 
nant was lost. H. C. Ide was the manager, and 
labored hard for the success of the nine. F. H. 
O’Connor, p., captained these men: F. P. Tuxbury 
’93, 1 b.; F. L. Smalley ’94, c. f. and p.; A. J. Ran- 
ney D. M. C. ’93, c.; F. G. Folsom ’95, c. f.; E. L. 
Griffin ’95, 2 b.; F. P. Dodge ’95, 1. f.; J. L. Fer¬ 
guson ’93, s. s.; H. H. Dinsmore ’96, 1. f. and 3 b.; 
W. II. Clagett ’95, 3 b. and r. f.; R. M. Thornburgh 
’95, p.; G. H. Abbott ’96, 1. f.; F. M. Weston ’96, p.; 
H. J. Brown ’95, 2 b. 

The spring trip was ordinarily promising. The 
Philadelphia league nine was played. O’Connor tried 
for a reputation and made it, holding his opponents 
down to five runs while his men scored twice. This 
was a remarkable showing for a college nine and 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


attracted universal attention. The other games of the 
trip were,—Dartmouth 12, Lehigh 5; Thornburgh 
pitching. Princeton 5, Dartmouth 2; O’Connor, 
Thornburgh, Smalley, Ranney, and Abbott all sharing 
the battery work for the visitors; Yale 4, Dart¬ 
mouth 0. 

On the New England trip the nine did creditable 
work against Andover and Brown, but went to pieces 
in the game with Harvard. Dartmouth 3, Andover 1; 
Dartmouth 2, Brown 3, were tlie results of the two 
former games. Harvard 20, Dartmouth 0, tells the 
story of the latter game. O’Connor and Smalley 
were alike ineffective, while only Tuxbury and Fer¬ 
guson succeeded in getting a single off Highlands. 
Exeter was defeated 8 to 3, Thornburgh, Carlton, 
and Smalley in the box. 

The first championship game was lost at Williams- 
town, 9 to 5. O’Connor was hit hard. Thornburgh 
pitched the latter part of the game in winning form. 
The second game was a tie, 2 to 2, eleven innings 
being played when it was necessary to leave to catch a 
train. O’Connor and Hollister fought neck to neck. 
Forty men went to bat on each side; each side had 
two errors, and each a total of eight hits. 

Williams’s nine was,—Howard, 3 b.; Eaton, 2 b.; 
Anderson, c. f.; Hollister, p.; Draper, c.; Ide, s. s.; 
Towne, 1 b.; Hammatt, 1. f.; Baker, r. f. 

Two practice games with Yale Law School, on the 














































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campus, resulted, 2 to 1, a defeat, and 11 to 3, a 
victory. 

Dartmouth went to Amherst and lost, 11 to 4. 
O’Connor weakened in the eighth and gave way to 
Weston, who made his first appearance as a varsity 
pitcher in a championship game. Dartmouth seemed 
unable either to bat or field. 

The next game humiliated Amherst, who, flushed 
with success, bet heavily. O’Connor’s curves were 
mystical. Not an error was made by the nine, and 4 
to 0 is the victorious result. 

On the home ground it was necessary to win all the 
remaining games to secure the pennant. Williams 
suffered defeat by a score of 6 to 2 the first day, but 
on the second Williams won, 5 to 2. The latter game 
was 2 to 2 until the last inning, when the spell was 
broken and three opponents made the circuit of the 
bases. 

Ranney’s playing in these losing games was the 
most conscientious possible. No one could show 
greater loyalty than he, and in grateful recognition of 
his devotion to the Old College he was presented with 
a fine gold watch by the students. 

The last two games were played in a half-hearted 
manner, and resulted in defeats, 6 to 3, 5 to 3. It 
was generally felt that a pennant had been lost with¬ 
out justifiable excuse. 

A reserve nine nearly as strong as the Varsity was 


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made up as follows: A. E. Carlton ’95, p.; W. J. Ran¬ 
dall ’96, c.; F. P. Claggett ’94, lb.; F. L. Keay D. 
M. C., 2 b. (captain); C. D. Barrows ’94, s. s.; F. D. 
Field ’94, 3 b.; H. D. Lakeman ’96, r. f.; H. A. 
Benner D. M. C. ’95, c. f.; S. E. McMillan ’94,1. f. 

The class championship in the fall of ’93 was won 
by ’95, it being the first instance in several years when 
a college class nine had defeated the D. M. C. team. 
Ranney did his last work on a Dartmouth team in the 
final game of this series. 

PROSPECTIVE. 

Although the college loses its best players in ’93, 
the future of base-ball at Dartmouth is most promis¬ 
ing. Never before did the ever loyal alumni take 
such a personal interest in college athletics as at pres¬ 
ent. Hard work, systematic and conscientious train¬ 
ing, and experienced trainers are more than ever 
before dominant in the Dartmouth ideal. The season 
of ’94 will be under the management of R. L. Burnap 
’94, who has at his command promising new material 
in ’97 and the Medical school. 


AVERAGES IN THE LEAGUE 


AVERAGE OF THE 1887 VARSITY NINE. 


Name. 

Position. 

Number 
of games. 

Fielding 

average. 

Batting 

average. 

Keay. 

2 b. 

10 

.815 

.417 

Dascomb . 

s. s. 

10 

.806 

.407 

Johnson. 

c. 

5 

.805 

.375 

Quackenboss. 

3 b. 

10 

.853 

.347 

Norton. 

r. f. 

10 

.625 

.333 

Ranlett. 

1. f. 

10 

.750 

.333 

Aiken. 

p. & c. f. 

10 

.772 

.315 

Scruton . 

c. f. & p. 

10 

.946 

.294 

Chandler. 

1 b. 

10 

.982 

.283 

Artz. 

e. 

5 

.922 

.217 


AVERAGE OF THE 1888 VARSITY NINE. 


Name. 

Position. 

Number 
of games. 

Fielding 

average. 

Batting 

average 

Williams. 

s. s. 

12 

.860 

.440 

Keay. 

i 2 b. 10 

1 C. f. 2 

12 

.800 

1.000 

.408 | 

Dascomb. 

1 f. 

12 

.778 

.385 

McCarthy. 

( C. f. 10 
| 2 b. 2 

12 

.778 

1.000 

.352 J 

Baehr. 

p. 5 
r. f. 3 

8 

.766 

1.000 

CO 

o 

o 

Chandler. 

1 b. 

11 

.967 

.234 

Ranney. 

1 C. 6 
| r.f.2 

8 

.807 

1.000 

.172 J 


l c.5 


.744 

) 

Artz. 

] r. f. 4 


1.000 

.154 ) 


( 1 b. 1 

10 

1.000 

) 

Cunningham. 

3b. 

12 

.814 

.093 

Stark. 

( p. 7 
\ r.f.3 

10 

.803 

.667 

.083 

Jones. 

\ c. 1 
r.f. 1 

2 

.864 

.200 { 


















































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/ 

AVERAGE OF THE 1889 VARSITY NINE. 


Name. 

Position. 

Number 
of games. 

Fielding 

average. 

Batting 

average. 

Jones. 

c. & r. f. 

10 

.729 

.288 

Stark . 

p. & r. f. 

6 

.708 

.272 

Gault. 

1 b. 

11 

.989* 

.244 

Abbott. 

3b. 

11 

.741 

.243 

Woodcock. 

p. & c. f. 

10 

.757 

236 

Norton. 

2 b. 

11 

.876 

.230 

Williams. 

s. s. 

11 

.657 

.224 

Ranney. 

c. & r. f. 

9 

.890 

.194 

Viau. 

c. f. &r. f. 

7 

.882 

.191 

Hoyt. 

l.f. 

11 

.863 

.125 

Baehr. 

P- 

1 

.473 

.000 


* Second in the league. 


AVERAGE OF THE 1890 VARSITY NINE. 


Name. 


Ranney... 

Abbott. 

Downs. 

Jones. 

Williams .. 

Norton .... 

Gault. 

Thompson 
Harland... 

Hartshorn 

Heath.. 

Shurtleff... 


Position. 

Number 
of games. 

Fielding 

average. 

\ c> 

7 

.929 

r.f. 

1 

.000 

3 b. 

7 

.969 

s. s. 

6 

.676 

j C. 

1 

1.000 

t r.f. 

5 

.800 

$ c. f. 

5 

.765 

( 2 b. 

2 

1.000 

2 b. 

4 

.848 

1 b. 

7 

.971 

1. f. 

7 

.692 

P- 

3 

.937 

\ P- 

2 

.666 

( r.f. 

1 

.000 

i s. s. 

1 

1.000 

! c.f. 

1 

1.000 

p. 

2 

1.000 


Batting 

average. 


.419 J 

.321 

.320 

.304 | 

.258 

.215 

.167 

.154 

.143 

.100 j 

.143 j 
.125 





















































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AVERAGE OF THE 1891 VARSITY NINE. 


Name. 

Position. 

Number 
of games. 

Fielding 

average. 

Batting 

average. 

Abbott. 

3 b. 

8 

.833 

.414 

Eaton. 

i r. f. 4 
l 2 b. 4 

8 

.875 

.343 | 

Barry. 

c. 

8 

.891 

.300 

Heath. 

c. f. 

8 

.818 

.297 

Barton. 

1 l.f. 
r.f. 

1 

2 

.000 

1.000 

.231 j 

Weston. 

r. f. 

1 

.500 

.200 

Joyce. 

1. f. 

7 

.817 

••187 

Tuxbury. 

l b. 

6 

.974 

.185 

Baehr . 

2 b. 

4 

.786 

.177 

Ferguson. 

s. s. 

8 

.763 

.150 

Shurtleff. 

p. 

7 

.920 

.111 

Smalley. 

S r - f - 

p. 

1 

1 

1.000 

1.000 

.000 ) 
.000 i 

Thompson. 

1 b. 

2 

.814 

.000 


AVERAGE OF THE 1893 VARSITY NINE. 


Name. 

Position. 

Number 
of games. 

Fielding 

average. 

Batting 

average. 

Thornburgh. 

P- 

1 

1.000 

.333 

O’Connor. 

p. 

7 

.935 

.310 

Smalley—.. 

r. f. & c. f. 

7 

.777 

.285 

Ranney. 

c. 

8 

1.000 

.281 

Brown. 

2 b. 

6 

.964 

.261 

Dodge. 

1. f. 

5 

.667 

.227 

Ferguson. 

s. s. 

8 

.824 

.205 

Tuxbury . 

1 b. 

8 

1.000 

.193 

Dinsmore. 

3 b. 

8 

.840 

.133 

Clagett. 

r. f. 

6 

.866 

.120 

Griffin. 

2 b. 

2 

1.000 

.000 

Abbott. 

l.f.&c. 

2 

.923 

.000 

Weston. 

p. &c. f. 

1 

.667 

.000 




















































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BASE-BALL AVERAGES FOR 1892. 


BATTING AVERAGE. 


Name. 

o> 

be 

o 

O 

| Rank. 

Games. 

Position. 

PQ 

< 

P5 

« 

T. B. 

S. H. 

S. B. 

Average. 

Stearns. 

A. 

1 

8 

2 b. 

33 

6 

11 

13 

0 

2 

.333 

Ranney . 

D. 

2 

8 

c. 

34 

3 

11 

15 

3 

0 

.324 

O’Connor. 

D. 

3 

8 

p. 

30 

3 

9 

10 

3 

6 

.300 

Ferguson. 

D. 

4 

4 

s. s. 

17 

3 

5 

5 

0 

1 

.292 

Sullivan. 

A. 

5 

8 

3b. 

28 

3 

8 

8 

3 

3 

.286 

Colby. 

A. 

6 

8 

P- 

19 

0 

5 

5 

2 

1 

.263 

Howard. 

W. 

7 

8 

2 b. 

33 

2 

8 

8 

2 

3 

.242 

Taylor. 

A. 

9 

7 

s. s. 

21 

2 

5 

6 

1 

0 

.238 

Allen. 

A. 

8 

8 

c. 

30 

7 

7 

10 

0 

8 

.233 

Hunt. 

A. 

10 

8 

1 b. 

31 

2 

7 

9 

2 

1 

.226 

Griffin. 

D. 

11 

6 

2 b. 

24 

5 

5 

7 

1 

2 

.208 

Joyce. 

D. 

12 

8 

1. f. 

29 

2 

6 

7 

1 

9 

.207 

J. Hollister. 

W. 

13 

7 

p. 

21 

2 

4 

4 

1 

2 

.190 

Tuxbury. 

D. 

14 

8 

1 b. 

32 

9 

6 

6 

0 

9 

.188 

C. Hollister. 

W. 

14 

8 

c. f. 

32 

3 

6 

6 

1 

6 

.188 

Burdette. 

D. 

14 

4 

3b. 

16 

2 

3 

3 

0 

3 

.188 

Beach. 

W. 

17 

8 

1 b. 

27 

3 

5 

7 

1 

2 

.185 

Street. 

W. 

17 

7 

1. f. 

27 

2 

5 

6 

1 

3 

.185 

Eaton. 

D. 

19 

8 

r.f. 

30 

3 

5 

5 

1 

1 

.166 

Clagett. 

D. 

20 

8 

3b. 

32 

3 

5 

5 

0 

5 

• 156 

Lynch. 

W. 

21 

8 

3 b. 

26 

4 

4 

5 

0 

2 

.154 

Brown. 

D. 

21 

4 

s.s. 

13 

0 

2 

2 

0 

1 

.154 

Mapes. 

W. 

23 

8 

r.f. 

33 

2 

5 

6 

0 

2 

.152 

Ide. 

W. 

24 

8 

s.s. 

25 

3 

3 

3 

0 

3 

.120 

Brown. 

A. 

25 

8 

r.f. 

30 

4 

3 

3 

0 

2 

.100 

Landis. 

A. 

26 

6 

s.s. 

22 

3 

2 

2 

0 

3 

.091 

Draper. 

W. 

27 

7 

c. 

24 

1 

2 

2 

1 

4 

.083 

Roberts. 

W. 

28 

4 

p. 

13 

0 

1 

1 

1 

1 

.077 

Cheney. 

A. 

29 

4 

1. f. 

23 

0 

1 

1 

0 

0 

.043 

Gould. 

A. 

30 

8 

c. f. 

29 

1 

1 

1 

1 

2 

.034 

Less than four games. 












Bell. 

D. 

•• 

2 

c. f. 

9 

3 

3 

5 

1 

0 

.333 

Hall. 

D. 

. • 

2 

c. f. 

10 

1 

2 

2 

1 

1 

.200 

Leach. 

A. 

. . 

2 

c.f. 

8 

1 

1 

1 

1 

2 

.125 

Shurtleff. 

D. 

* * 

2 

p- 

4 

0 

0 

0 

0 

1 

.000 



































































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DARTMOUTH IN BASE-BALL 


63 


FIELDING. 
Pitchers’ Record. 


Name. 

Col. 

Ga’s. 

R’ns. 

Er’d. 

B. H. 

S. O. 

W. P. 

F. A. 

O’Connor. 

D. 

8 

10 

2 

35 

73 

2 

.905 

Colby. 

A. 

6 

20 

2 

21 

18 

6 

1.000 

J. Hollister. 

W. 

7 

31 

3 

43 

43 

4 

.852 

Sullivan. 

A. 

3 

12 

2 

25 

13 

0 

.800 

Less than three 









games. 









Roberts. 

W. 

2 

9 

0 

14 

13 

0 

1 000 

Stearns. 

A. 

1 

4 

1 

10 

12 

1 

1.000 

Shurtleff. 

D. 

1 

4 

0 

3 

5 

0 

1.000 


Fielding Average of Pitchers. 


Name. 

Col. 

Rank 

Ga’s. 

P. O. 

A. 

E. 

Av. 

Colby. 

A. 

1 

6 

5 

8 

0 

1.000 

O’Connor. 

D. 

2 

8 

17 

2 

2 

.905 

J. Hollister. 

W. 

3 

7 

3 

20 

4 

.852 

Sullivan. 

A. 

4 

3 

4 

4 

2 

.800 

Less than three games. 








Rnhftrts. 

W. 


2 

2 

3 

0 

1.000 

Pt <: ’ l f ,rT1 s. 

A. 


1 

1 

4 

0 

1.000 

Shurtleff. 

D. 


1 

0 

1 

0 

1.000 


Catchers’ Record. 


Name. 

Col. 

Rank 

Ga’s. 

P. O. 

A. 

E. 

P. B. 

Av. 

Allen. 

A. 

1 

8 

54 

17 

3 

8 

.964 

Ranney . 

D. 

2 

8 

79 

13 

5 

3 

.948 

Draper. 

W. 

3 

7- 

48 

17 

6 

12 

.915 

Less than three 









games. 









C 1 TTnlli . 

W 


1 

5 

1 

0 

0 

1.000 

Hunt. 

A. 


1 

2 

0 

0 

1 

1.000 
























































































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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS 


First Baseman. 


Name. 

Col. 

Rank 

Ga’s. 

P. O. 

A. 

E. 

Ay. 

Beach. 

W. 

1 

8 

93 

1 

3 

.989 

Tuxbury. 

D. 

2 

8 

72 

3 

5 

.918 

Hunt. 

A. 

3 

8 

60 

5 

5 

.929 

Less than three games. 








Allen.'... 

A. 


1 

3 

0 

4 % 

0 

1.000 


Second Basemen. 


Name. 

Col. 

Rank 

Ga’s. 

P.O. 

A. 

E. 

Av. 

Griffin. 

D. 

1 

6 

15 

14 

0 

1.000 

Stearns. 

A. 

2 

7 

18 

18 

2 

.947 

Howard. 

W. 

3 

8 

22 

27 

5 

.907 

Less than three games. 








Efl.tnn. 

D. 


2 

5 

g 

3 

813 

Taylor. 

A. 


1 

0 

3 

2 

.600 


Third Basemen. 


Name. 

Col. 

Rank 

Ga’s. 

P.O. 

A. 

E. 

Av. 

Clagett. 

D. 

1 

4 

7 

8 

2 

.882 

Burdette. 

D. 

2 

4 

5 

7 

2 

.857 

Lynch. 

W. 

3 

8 

5 

17 

4 

.846 

Sullivan. 

A. 

4 

7 

15 

10 

5 

.833 

Less than three games. 








Taylor. 

A. 


2 

3 

0 

1 

.750 

Landis. 

A. 


1 

0 

0 

1 

.000 













































































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65 


Short Stops. 


Name. 

Col. 

Rank 

Ga’s. 

P.O. 

A. 

E. 

Av. 

Ferguson. 

D. 

1 

4 

3 

7 

0 

1.000 

Brown. 

D. 

2 

4 

5 

5 

1 

.909 

Ide. 

W. 

3 

8 

10 

13 

6 

.793 

Landis. 

A. 

4 

6 

4 

9 

11 

.541 

Less than three games. 








Taylor. 

A. 


2 

3 

3 

3 

.666 


Left Fielders. 


Name. 

Col. 

Rank 

Ga’s. 

P.O. 

A. 

E. 

Av. 

Joyce. 

D. 

1 

8 

6 

0 

0 

1.000 

Gould. 

A. 

1 

4 

4 

0 

0 

1.000 

Cheney. 

A. 

3 

4 

7 

1 

1 

.888 

Street. 

W. 

4 

7 

5 

1 

•2 

.750 

Less than three games. 








C. Hollister. 

W. 


1 

0 

0 

0 

.000 


Centre Fielders. 


Name. 

Col. 

Rank 

Ga’s. 

P.O. 

A. 

E. 

Av. 

Gould ... 

A. 

1 

4 

9 

0 

2 

.818 

C. Hollister. 

W. 

2 

6 

8 

1 

3 

.750 

Less than three games. 








Leapt). 

A. 


2 

2 

1 

0 

1.000 

Clagett. 

D. 


2 

1 

0 

0 

1.000 

Colby. 

A. 


2 

2 

0 

0 

1.000 

f§hu T *tl f 'tf. 

D. 


2 

1 

o 

0 

1.000 

Hall.... 

D. 


2 

0 

1 

0 

1.000 

Taylor. 

A. 


2 

3 

1 

1 

.800 

O’P.nxinnr* . 

D. 


1 

1 

0 

1 

.500 

Roberts. 

w . 


2 

2 

0 

2 

.500 

Bell. 

D. 


2 

0 

0 

0 

.000 


5 






















































































66 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Right Fielders. 


Name. 

Col. 

Rank 

Ga’s. 

P.O. 

A. 

E. 

Av. 

Eaton. 

D. 

1 

6 

7 

3 

1 

.909 

Mapes. 

W. 

2 

8 

4 

2 

1 

.857 

Brown. 

A. 

3 

8 

12 

4 

4 

.800 

Less than three games. 








Clagett. 

D. 


2 

1 

0 

0 

1.000 


TEAM BATTING. 


Name. 

A. B. 

R. 

B. H. 

T. B. 

S. H. 

S.B. 

Av. 

Dartmouth. 

279 

39 

62 

74 

10 

41 

.222 

Amherst. 

269 

29 

50 

59 

10 

24 

.186 

Williams. 

• 

261 

22 

43 

48 

8 

28 

.165 


TEAM FIELDING. 


Name. 

P.O. 

A. 

E. 

S. O. 

Av. 

Dartmouth. 

210 

87 

22 

50 

.931 

Williams. 

207 

103 

36 

70 

.896 

Amherst. 

210 

87 

42 

66 

.877 


STANDING OF THE CLUBS. 


Name. 

Games. 

D. 

w. 

A. 

Won. 

Dartmouth. 

s 


o 

A 

o 

Williams. 

g 

2 


1 

D 

9 

Amherst. 

8 

0 

9 


o 

9 




O 


Av. 


.750 

.375 

.375 












































































































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t 




Lewis Parkhurst ’78. 


























FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


I N relation to the origin of field and track athletics at 
Dartmouth, Lewis Parkhurst ’78, who was promi¬ 
nent in them at that time, writes: “ Previous to the 
fall of 1875 athletic sports, as now understood, were 
unknown at Dartmouth. From the earliest times foot¬ 
ball had been the means by which the students gen¬ 
erally had worked off their superfluous energy,—not 
the Rugby game of to-day, but the old-fashioned game 
in which every student joined, and in which many a 
hard fought battle between 4 Social ’ and 4 Frater ’ 
.tested the strength, courage, and agility of the future 
statesman or divine; and after a ‘ whole division ’ 
game not a few went home with battered shins and 
aching backs, and a black eye or swollen nose often 
marked the participant in a closely contested rush to 
put the ball over the college fence, the east and west 
sides of which then served as goals. From 12 to 
12:30—the dinner hour—the ball was kept bounding 
from one end of the campus to the other, and in pleas¬ 
ant weather but few minutes were taken for dinner. 
Then there was another game until 2 o’clock, when 
study hours commenced. Sometimes a hard fought 
battle or a rush between two classes was far too inter- 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


esting to be left off promptly at 2 o’clock, and the tall, 
erect form of the president would soon be seen coming 
around the corner, and shortly after came his always 
polite demand to ‘ Disperse, young gentlemen; dis¬ 
perse to your rooms! ’ This usually had the desired 
effect, but sometimes a more forcible demand on his 
part was required. 

“ In the ’60’s base-ball was very popular, and there 
were frequent class contests, as well as match games 
with the students of other colleges and picked nines 
from the surrounding towns. 

“In the early ’70’s boating occupied the time of 
those in college who gave particular attention to out¬ 
side sports. Dartmouth, although never first in an 
intercollegiate regatta, made an honorable record at 
Saratoga, where the races were then held. In ’74 and 
’75 there was great enthusiasm over boating matters, 
and class races were held in the fall preparatory to 
selecting a university crew for the following summer 
contests. The first athletic sports were held in con¬ 
nection with these class races in the fall of ’75, and 
were then considered of minor importance compared 
with the sports on the river. Boating had been found 
to be very expensive, and many students, as well as 
most of the faculty who took an interest in such mat¬ 
ters, felt that only a very few could be benefited 
physically by boating, and the season on the river was 
so much shorter than the crews further south enjoyed, 


FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


69 


that it was questionable if Dartmouth could ever com¬ 
pete successfully with them. For these and other 
reasons, a few students, the writer among the number, 
met in an informal manner in the Old Chapel in the 
fall of ’75, and decided to have, in addition to the 
regatta, some general athletic sports. No one, as I 
remember, had ever attended such a meeting, and no 
one had a very clear idea of the proper manner of 
conducting it; but a general meeting of all classes was 
called, and officers were chosen with full powers to 
make all necessary arrangements for a field day. 
The students of the Thayer School laid out a quarter- 
mile track on the Campus, also a straight-away course 
of one hundred yards, and another of a hundred and 
twenty yards. Hurdles were built, and a list of twen¬ 
ty-seven rules published to govern the forthcoming 
sports, which were to consist of a three-mile walk, a 
three-mile run, a one-mile walk, a one-mile run, one 
hundred yards dash, one hundred and twenty yards 
hurdle race, running and standing long and high jump, 
three consecutive jumps, hop-skip-jump, pole jump, 
three-legged race, sack race, wheelbarrow race, throw¬ 
ing the hammer, putting the heavy weight, and throw¬ 
ing base-ball. All the students were urged to enter 
their names in one or more contests. A small regis¬ 
tration fee was charged, which, with the sale of j>ro- 
grammes, was expected to defray in part the expenses 
of the day. Prizes were offered and placed on exhi- 


70 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


bition in Frost’s jewelry store. These were given by 
merchants, members of the faculty, societies, classes, 
boarding-clubs, or by any one whom the soliciting 
committees could induce to provide them. There 
were offered silver cups, urns, card-cases, ice-pitchers, 
walking sticks, silk umbrellas, bric-a-brac, sets of 
books, etc., etc. There was no special training for this 
first meeting. Everybody entered to help make a 
success of the day. In some cases the number of com¬ 
petitors was larger than the track or course could 
accommodate. 

“Wednesday, October 13, 1875, was the day ap¬ 
pointed by the faculty for the races and sports. The 
weather was all that could be desired. Early in the 
day a stage was erected on the west side of the campus 
just outside of the fence. From this Professor Col¬ 
burn’s cornet band, of a neighboring village, fur¬ 
nished inspiring music to the students and townspeo¬ 
ple gathered around in great numbers. It was a day 
second in importance only to Commencement. Pro¬ 
fessor Parker, a warm advocate of the experiment, had 
consented to serve as a referee. Judges represented 
each class, and ‘ Billy ’ Reding was appointed time¬ 
keeper. The first number on the programme was a 
hurdle-race. This was won by Clark ’76, C. S. D., 
who covered the one hundred and twenty yards, over 
eleven hurdles, in 22 seconds. Much interest was 
manifested by the students throughout the meeting, 


FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


71 


and the different contestants were loudly applauded 
by their classmates and friends. 

“On the following Saturday evening the lecture- 
room in Culver Hall was crowded to overflowing by 
those who came to witness the presentation of prizes 
by the referee. Professor Parker was in the happiest 
mood, and kept the audience in the best of humor for 
an hour or more with his allusions to the ancient 
Roman games, and his witty comparisons of the suc¬ 
cessful participants with the heroes of the iEneid fre¬ 
quently brought down the house. 

“ Thus ended the first field day at Dartmouth, which 
all voted a grand success, and the fact that the custom 
has been kept up ever since goes to prove that the 
experiment was well worth trying.” 

The winners and records of this meet were :—Hur¬ 
dle—first heat, Clarke ’76, 22 sec.; second heat, Cav- 
erly ’78, 22 1-4 sec.; the race was 120 yards over eleven 
31-2 ft. hurdles. Throwing base-ball, Clarke ’76, 318 
ft. 11 in. 100-yards dash—first heat, Prescott ’77,11 
sec.; second heat, Haskell ’76, 10 3-4 sec.; third heat, 
Staples ’76,111-4 sec. Seventy-eight won over ’76 in 
a boat race on the Connecticut; time, 14 min. 35 1-4 
sec. Peabody ’76 beat Darling ’78 in “single sculls,” 
in 18 min. 41 1-2 sec. 

Second day: Throwing hammer, Prescott, 60 ft. 
10 3-4 in.; weight of hammer, 18 1-2 lbs. Putting 
18 1-2 lbs. shot, Wallace ’77, 26 ft. 5 7-8 in. Finals 


72 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


in 100-yards dash, Prescott, 11 1-8 sec. Mile walk, 
Davis ’77, 9 min. 36 sec. Three jumps, Flint ’76, 30 
ft. 2 7-8 in. Mile run, Stimpson ’76, 5 min. 41 1-4 
sec. Running broad jump, Young ’79, 17 ft. 5 in. 
Standing broad jump, Goodhue ’76, 10 ft. 5 1-2 in. 
Finals in the hurdles won by Clark, 21 5-8 sec. 
Three-mile walk, Lewis Parkhurst ’78, 29 min. 
Three-mile run, Lamb ’79, 19 min. 7 3-4 sec. ; second, 
Stimpson. Hop-skip-jump, Goodhue ’76. Running 
high jump, Ingham ’77, 4 ft. 11 in. Standing high 
jump, Kenaston ’79, 3 ft. 11 in. Quarter mile, Has¬ 
kell and Young stumbled on each other near the finish 
and Ingham won, 65 1-4 sec. Three-legged race, 
Staples and Whitcomb. Seniors won the row-off; ’76 
beat ’79 ; Peabody ’76 out-sculled Newell ’79. 

AT GLEN MITCHELL. 

On the morning of the Saratoga regatta, July 21, 
1876, a large number assembled at Glen Mitchell to 
witness the athletic sports, which had come to be of 
considerable importance. In the mile walk Dart¬ 
mouth,had a fast man in McCall, who finished a close 
second. Young ’78 was popularly called the winner 
of the running broad jump, although the event was 
given to a U. of Pa. man on the pretext of a foul. E. 
C. Stimpson ’76, of Dartmouth, won the three-mile 
run in wonderful form. He was applauded at every 
round by the admiring crowd, keeping up and even 


FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


73 


increasing his speed to the finish. His time was 16 
min. 21 sec., which was declared by the referee to 
break the amateur record in America. Stimpson sur¬ 
prised the crowd by appearing for the mile run. He 
won it, however, in 4 min. 58 1-2 sec. He was the 
greatest athlete of the meet by far. Young ’78 came 
in second in the quarter, although he led close to the 
finish. Williams, Princeton, Wesleyan, University of 
the City of New York, Columbia, Yale, Cornell, and 
Dartmouth had representatives there, but the 

“ GREEN ” WAS MOST OFTEN VICTORIOUS. 

The fall meet of 1876 was most successful. Stevens 
’77 won the hammer throw; Farnsworth ’77, quarter; 
Stevens, three jumps; Cogswell ’80, 100 yards; C. W. 
Spring ’80, throwing base-ball, 323 ft.; Stevens, stand¬ 
ing broad jump; Stevens, hurdle race; Stevens, hop- 
skip-jump; Lewis Parkhurst ’78, three-mile walk, 25 
min. 30f sec., breaking all previous records. The 
meet closed with a game of foot-ball under Captains 
Farnsworth ’77 and Rice ’78, the former’s men wear¬ 
ing blue caps and the latter’s red for the sake of dis¬ 
tinguishing. President Smith and Hon. Hiram Hitch¬ 
cock made speeches at the presentation of prizes. 

THE SPRING MEET OF 1877 

was the occasion of much record breaking. Hammer 
throw, W. W. Prescott ’77, 78 ft. 6 in. 100-yards 


74 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


dash, Thos. Flint ’80, 10 1-4 sec. (record). Putting 
181-2 lb. shot, Prescott, 31 ft. 31-4 in. Half-mile run, 
Cogswell, 2 min. 12 3-4 sec. Mile walk, Parkhurst, 7 
min. 49 1-4 sec. (record). The tug-of-war was started 
at Dartmouth this year. Wallace ’77 and I. F. Paul 
’78 were the rival captains. Each side had 12 men be¬ 
sides the captain. The men grasped opposite ends of a 
long rope, and the contest was won by that team which 
should succeed in pulling the other across a line previ¬ 
ously marked out, and for a distance of 30 feet 
beyond. It lasted for several minutes. Paul’s side 
won this contest. Standing broad jump, J. B. Ger- 
ould, 10 ft. 10 1-4 in. Throwing base-ball, Gerould, 
344 ft. Quarter-mile run, C. H. Cogswell, 56 3-4 
sec. Three-mile walk, Parkhurst ’78, 25 min. 16 1-4 
sec. 

AT MOTT HAVEN. 

C. H. Cogswell won the half-mile and quarter-mile 
events at Mott Haven this summer, thus bringing him¬ 
self into prominence, and winning laurels for the 
“ green.” 

The fall of 1877 witnessed another test of athletic 
prowess. “ Colburn’s ” cornet band was employed to 
enliven the occasion. 

Throwing the hammer was won by Eaton ’79, 81 ft. 
1 in.; weight changed to 16 lbs. Half-mile run, 
Cogswell, 2 min. 14 1-2 sec. A new event, 100-yards 







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FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


75 


dash backward, was introduced this year. J. C. Gray 
’78 won in 16 sec. Pole vaulting was also a new event. 
Walker ’79 did the best, 7 ft. 1 in. A rain-storm 
began, and the meet was intercepted at this point. 
The best records up to the spring of 1878, were: 100- 
yards dash, Thomas Flint ’80, 10 1-4 sec. Mile walk, 
Lewis Parkhurst ‘78, 7 min. 49 1-2 sec. Standing 
broad jump, J. B. Gerould ’78, 10 ft. 10 1-4 in. Quar¬ 
ter-mile. run, S. Young ’79, 54 3-4 sec. Three-mile 
walk, Parkhurst ’78, 25 min. 16J sec. 

SPRING MEET, 1878. 

Hammer throw, Wilson ’80, 86 ft. 9 1-2 in.; Ham, 
second. Best three jumps, Mason ’79, 31 ft.; French 
’80, second. 100-yards dash—first heat, Danforth ’80, 
10 3-4 sec.; second heat, Flint, 10 1-2 sec. Shot put, 
18 1-2 lbs., Wilson, 31 ft. 6 3-4 in.; Gerould ’78, sec¬ 
ond. Half-mile run, Cogswell, 2 min. 16 sec. 100-yards 
dash backwards, Warner ’80, 16 sec.; Biddlecom ’79, 
16 3-4 sec. Mile walk, Ham ’80, 8 min. 15 3-4 sec. 
Mile run, Lombard ’79, 5 min. 33 sec.; Spring ’80, sec¬ 
ond. Pole vaulting, Sloane ’80, 7 ft. 5 in.; Walker ’79, 
7 ft. 4 in. Running broad jump, Gerould ’78, 16 ft.; 
Smith ’80, second. Standing broad jump, Shattuck 
’79, 11 ft. 1 1-2 in.; Gerould, second, 11 ft. 1 1-4 in. 
Running high jump, Flint ’80, 5 ft.; Cunningham, sec¬ 
ond. Quarter-mile run, Cogswell, 58 1-2 sec.; Snow, 
second. Three-legged race, Danforth and Sloane ’80, 


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14 sec.; Furman and Warner ’80, second. Throwing 
base-hall, Gerould, 353 ft. 9 in.; Conant ’79, second. 
Potato race, Badger ’80, first. 220-yards dash, 
Flint, 24 3-4 sec.; Lombard ’79, second. Hop-skip- 
jump, King '80, 35 ft. 6 in. ; Mason, 35 ft. 4 in. 
Three-mile walk, King and Dutton ’80, tied in 29 min. 
6 sec. Three-mile run, Lombard, 19 min. 8 sec. 
100 yards (final), Danforth, 10 1-2 sec.; Flint, second. 
Hurdle race, Badger, 21 1-2 sec.; Gove ’78, second. 
Consolation race, Spring ’80, 1 min. 1 1-2 sec. 

FALL MEET, 1878. 

Hammer throw, Eaton, 68 ft. 6 1-2 in. ; Lines ’82, 
second, 62 ft. 10 1-2 in. Best three jumps, Mason ’79, 
31 ft. 11 in. Putting shot, Eaton ’79, 27 ft. 2 in. 
Pole vaulting, Norton ’79, 7 ft. 1 in. First heat in the 
100-yards dash, Underhill ’81,11 5-8 sec.; Porter ’81, 
next, 11 3-4 sec. Second heat, Danforth ’80, 11 1-8 
sec.; Cogswell ’80, 11 1-4 sec. Standing high jump, 
Underhill ’81, 3 ft. 10 in. Half-mile run, Cogswell ’80, 
2 min. 9 1-4 sec. 100-yards dash backward, Captain 
Warner ’80, 15 3-4 sec.; Cram ’81, second, 16 1-2 sec. 
Mile walk, Ham ’80, 8 min. 3 sec. First heat in hur¬ 
dle race, Moore ’81, 21 1-2 sec.; second heat, Cun¬ 
ningham ’81, 22 1-2 sec. Mile run, Lamb ’79, 4 min. 
51 5-8 sec.; Lombard’79, 5 min. 17 1-2 sec. 200- 
yards medley, i. e., a hop for 100 yards with a turn 
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in 29 1-4 sec.; Rich ’79, second. Running broad 
jump, Cram ’81, 16 ft. 2 1-4 in.; Bartlett ’82, second. 
Standing broad jump, Cram, 9 ft. 11 1-2 in. Quarter- 
mile run, Cogswell, 55 1-4 sec. ; Porter, second. Run 
ning high jump, Cram, 4 ft. 7 in. Three-legged race, 
Danforth and Sloane, 13 3-8 sec. Throwing base-ball, 
Porter, 319 ft. Batting base-ball, Rundlett ’81, 314 
ft. 3 in. 220-yards dash, Cogswell, 25 1-8 sec.; Reed 
’79, second, 25 3-4 sec. Hop-skip-jump, Cram, 39 ft. 
7 3-4 in. Hurdle race (final), Moore, 21 1-2 sec.; 
Cunningham, second. 100-yards dash (final), Dan¬ 
forth, 11 1-8 sec.; Cogswell, 11 1-4 sec. Two-mile 
walk, Ham ’80, 16 min. 45 1-2 sec.; Dutton ’80, 
second. 

SPRING MEET, 1879. 

Hammer throw, Lines ’82, 59 ft. 5 1-4 in.; Went¬ 
worth ’82, second, 57 ft. 11 in. Best three jumps, 
Humiston ’82, 25 ft. 8 3-4 in.; Webster ’82 second, 22 
ft. 5 1-4 in. 100-yards dash—First heat, Sloane ’80, 
111-2 sec.; Rose ’81, second. Second heat, Condon 
’82, 12 sec.; Quimby ’82, 12 1-4 sec. Standing high 
jump, Flint and Underhill, tied at 4 ft. 2 in. Shot put, 
Merriam ’81, 27 ft. 6 in.; Lines, second. Half mile 
run, Cogswell, 2 min. 7 1-4 sec.; Parker ’82, second, 
2 min. 17 sec. Mile walk, King ’80, 8 min. 42 1-4 
sec.; Poor ’82 second, 8 min. 42 1-2 sec. Three-mile 
run, Parker ’82, 17 min. 37 1-4 sec.; Smith ’79, sec- 


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ond. Pole vault, Sloane ’80, 8 ft. 7 in.; Humiston, 
second. 220-yards dash, Snow ’81, 26 sec.; Condon, 
27 1-4 sec. Three hours, go-as-you-please, Teames ’80, 
20 9-10 miles; Smith ’79, 20 4-10 miles. Running 
broad jump, Cram ’81,17 ft. 1 3-4 in.; Humiston, sec¬ 
ond. Standing broad jump, Merriam ’81, 9 ft. 1 1-4 
in.; Humiston, second. Quarter-mile run, Cogs¬ 
well ’80, 54 sec., beating his Mott Haven record, 4-5 
sec. Running high jump, Flint ’80, 5 ft. 3 in.; Cram, 
second. Three-legged race, Condon and Quimby ’82 
17 1-4 sec.; Lines and Kimball ’81, second. Throw¬ 
ing base-hall, Cram, 318 ft. 11 in.; Porter, second. 
220-yards dash, Cogswell, 24 1-8 sec.; Condon, second. 
Hop-skip-jump, Cram, 38 ft. 6 in.; Webster, second. 
Two-mile walk, King ’80, 19 min. 3 5-8 sec.; Cum¬ 
mings, second. Mile run, Parker, 5 min. 2 1-4 sec.; 
Luques ’82, second. 100-yards dash (final), Sloane, 
11 sec.; Rose, 11 1-2 sec. Hurdle race, Thompson 
’79, 19 1-2 sec.; Flint, second. Consolation race, 
Merrill ’82, 1 min. 3 1-4 sec.; Cushman, second. 

FALL MEET, 1879. 

Hammer throw, Merriam ’81, 67 ft. 1-2 in.; Lines, 
second. Best three jumps, Merriam, 27 ft. 3 in.; 
Stafford ’81, second. 100-yards dash—First heat, 
Snow, 11 1-2 sec.; Condon, 12 sec.; second heat, 
Sloane, 11 sec.; Marston, 11 1-2 sec. Standing high 
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in.; Chellis ’83, second. Half-mile run, Parker ’82, 
2 min. 12 3-4 sec.; Merrill ’81, second. 100-yards 
dash backwards, Cram, 16 sec.; Condon, second. 
Mile walk, Cummings ’82, first. Hurdle race, Cram, 
17 3-11 sec.; Cunningham, second. Three-mile run, 
Parker, 17 min. 46 1-2 sec.; Luques, second. Pole 
vault, Humiston, 7 ft. 6 in.; Merrill, second. 220- 
yards handicap, Snow, 25 1-2 sec.; Marston, second. 
Running broad jump, Webster ’82, 14 ft. 8 1-2 in.; 
Center ’83, second. Standing broad jump, Cram, 
first; Merriam, second. Quarter-mile run, Parker, 
58 1-2 sec. ; Snow, second. Running high jump, 
Flint, 4 ft. 10 in.; Cram, second. Three-legged race, 
Danforth and Cogswell, 12 1-2 sec.; Luques and 
Condon, second. Throwing base-ball, Gulick ’83, 373 
ft. 9 1-2 in.; Cram, 364 ft. 4 1-2 in. 220-yards dash, 
Condon, 26 3-4 sec.; Porter, second. Hop-skip-jump, 
Barrett ’83, 36 ft. 5 in.; Webster, second. Two- 
mile walk, Brown ’83, 19 min. 46 sec. One-mile run, 
Parker, 5 min. 1 1-4 sec. 100-yards dash (final), 
Sloane, 11 sec.; Marston 11 1-4 sec. Consolation 
race, Coombs ’83, 62 sec.; Merrill ’82, second. 

SPRING MEET, 1880. 

100-yards dash, Marston ’83, 11 1-4 sec.; Rice ’82, 
second. Mile walk, Thompson and Little ’82 tied in 
9 min. 48 sec.; Pearl ’82, second. Quarter-mile run, 
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tied at 4 ft. 11 in. Hammer throw, Lines, 66 ft. 9 3-4 
in.; Merriam, second. Standing high jump, Condon, 
4 ft. 7 in.; Flint, second, 4 ft. 5 in. 220-yards dash, 
Cogswell, 25 sec.; Condon, second. Shot put, Lines, 
first; Merrill, second. Hop-skip-jump, Cogswell, 34 
ft. 1-4 in. Hurdle race, Oakes, 19 3-4 sec.; Blake 
’83, second. Half-mile run, Luques, 2 min. 22 1-2 
sec. Running broad jump, Oakes, 16 ft. 10 1-2 in. 
Standing broad jump, Merriam, 10 ft. 101-4 in.; 
Cressy ’83 second. Mile run, Parker ’82 won in 4 
min. 43 sec. (record) ; Luques, second. There were 
no more spring meets until ’87. 

FALL MEET, 1880. 

Hammer throw, Lines, 73 ft. 111-4 in.; Sargent ’84, 
second. Pole vault, Flint ’84 and Humiston tied at 8 
ft. Standing high jump, L. Hinckley ’84, 4 ft. 7 in.; 
Condon, 4 ft. 6 in. 100-yards dash—first heat, Mars- 
ton ’83 won, and Barrett came second; second heat, 
Snow and J. H. Hinckley ’84; third heat, Oakes and 
Rolfe. Shot put, Sargent ’84, 26 ft. 8 1-4 in.; Lines, 
second. Hurdle race—first heat, Cram, 17 sec.; sec¬ 
ond heat, Moore ’81 and Oakes tied in 19 sec. Mile 
walk, Phillips ’83, 8 min. 23 sec.; Thompson ’82, 
second. Half-mile run, Parker, 2 min. 10 3-4 sec.; 
Rolfe ’84, second. Running broad jump, Oakes, 18 
ft. 8 3-4 in.; Barrett, second. 220-yards handicap, 
Oakes, 23 3-4 sec.; J. H. Hinckley, 24 1-4 sec. Stand- 















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gin broad jump, L. Hinckley, 9 ft. 3 1-2 in.; Flanders 
’84, second, 9 ft. 2 in. Running high jump, L. Hinck¬ 
ley, 5 ft. 1 1-2 in.; Oakes, second. Quarter mile, 
Parker, 56 sec.; Rice ’82, second. Throwing base-ball, 
Gulick, 334 ft. 1 in.; Webster ’82, 304 ft. Mile run, 
Luques, 5 min. 37 1-4 sec.; Flint ’84, second. Batting 
base-ball, Partridge, 354 ft. 10 in. Three-legged race, 
Rose and Marston, 14 1-2 sec.; Thompson and Cum¬ 
mings, second. Hop-skip-jump, Cram, 39 ft. 8 in.; 
Barrett, second. 220-yards dash, Oakes, 22 sec.; 
Parker, 23 sec. 100-yards dash (final), Marston, 
10 1-2 sec.; Oakes/10 3-4 sec. Hurdle race (final), 
Cram, 17 sec.; Oakes, second. Two-mile run, Parker 
won; Nettleton ’84 and Flint ’84 tied for second 
place. Consolation race, Maxwell ’83, 58 1-2 sec. 

FALL MEET, 1881. 

Hammer throw, Lines, 70 ft. 2 in.; Sargent, second. 
100-yards dash—first heat, Bayley ’85, 11 3-4 sec.; 
Brooks, second; second heat, Hinckley, 11 1-2 sec.; 
R. P. Parker ’82, second; third heat, Oakes, 11 3-4 sec.; 
Hulbert ’85, second. Running high jump, Hinckley 
and Moore, D. M. C., tied for first, 4 ft. 11 in.; 
Brooks, 4 ft. 9 in. Mile walk, Brown ’83, 8 mir. 
36 1-2 sec.; Poor ’82, second. Shot put, Sargent, 32 
ft. 9 in.; Lines, second. Hurdle race, Oakes, 19 1-4 
sec.; R. P. Parker, second. Quarter-mile run, J. H. 
Hinckley, 62 3-4 sec.; Rice, second. Running broad 


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jump, Oakes, 19 ft. 6 in.; L. Hinckley, 17 ft. Mile 
run, Flint, 5 min. 37 sec.; Hatch, 5 min. 59 sec. 220- 
yards dash, Oakes, 23 1-2 sec.; J. H. Hinckley, sec¬ 
ond. Standing high jump, Moore and L. Hinckley 
tied at 4 ft. 5 in. Half-mile run, Rolfe, 2 min. 26 3-4 
sec.; Rice, second. Pole vault, Flint ’85, 7 ft.; Hul- 
hert, second. Two-mile run, Flint, 12 min. 33 sec.; 
Hatch, second. 100-yards dash (final), Oakes, 11 1-4 
sec.; Hinckley, second. Consolation race, Quimby, 
61 sec.; Delano, second. 

WORLD-BEATERS. 

Concerning Dartmouth’s prowess at this time, Prof. 
E. B. Condon ’82, giver of the Condon athletic prize, 
writes,— 

“ In these days of enclosed cinder paths, with 
straiglit-aways for the sprints and modern conveniences 
of training, let not those who have come later forget 
that Lamb, Parker, and Cogswell, for daily training, 
ran in sand knee deep, that their feet might not burden 
them when they stepped upon the smooth turf, and so 
far as we could see they never did burden them. Cogs¬ 
well’s quarter in 54 sec., his half in 2 min. 7 1-4 sec.; 
Parker’s mile in 4 min. 43 sec., and Lamb’s 3 miles in 
16 min. 23 sec., all on turf and with no one to make 
the pace, do not compare unfavorably with the best we 
do to-day; nor must we forget that the fastest American 
quarter ever run whs made in Cogswell’s time and by a 


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man who never could beat him in a race. I have been 
present at almost every notable trial made in America 
during the past ten years, and it is my positive belief, 
based upon some degree of knowledge and unbiased 
by my loyal feelings for the Old College, that Lamb, 
with modern training and pacing, would have ranked a 
‘World-beater’ at modern figures, just as he did in 
’78. When in ’82 Condon discovered for himself the 
method of ‘ siding ’ at a bar, with a single day’s 
practice he placed 2 1-2 inches to the world’s record 
in the standing high jump. But far more remarkable 
than this was the performance of L. E. Hinckley the 
following year. Hinckley began the contest facing the 
bar. He had never seen a side jump before the games, 
yet, promptly recognizing the advantage, he adopted it 
and won at record figures. In a day or two, after hav¬ 
ing practised some meanwhile, both Condon and Hinck¬ 
ley easily cleared 4 ft. 11 in. Walter Soren’s 1 1-4 
in. better stood as a world’s record for ten years, but he 
was sixteen months in training. He was attired for a 
contest and properly rubbed and groomed for e&ch trial. 
California, home of speed, sent us Tom Flint, whose 
record was 101-4 sec. for 100 accurately measured yards, 
on the testimony of several good watches. My own 
experience, when first I ran a hundred and Tom Flint 
coached me down the side lines, makes me more firm 
in my belief that he, too, belonged in the first ten of 
American college runners. Fashionably attired, he 


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sprinted, the side lines before me, disdaining even to 
remove his silk hat, or lay down his cane, and his 
( Come on, freshy ; why do n’t you run ? ’ still rings in 
my ears. There be many of us who remember still the 
profound scorn with which Partridge finally agreed to 
bat a base-ball 4 just once,’ that the man who had come 
all the way from New York to verify the claims made 
might see his prowess. With unbounded contempt of 
any such trivial matter as driving a ball for a record, 
he stepped carelessly to the plate—and, crack—the 
sphere seemed a’most lost to our sight!—‘473 ft. 9 in.!’ 
said the New York man, as he carefully put away his 
tape. ‘ That will stand many a year, I fancy.’ Correct 
enough was his prophecy. It stands yet. Amateurs 
and professionals alike have assailed it in vain. Do you 
remember when Lindsay refused to throw the heavy 
hammer in contest, because it was not fair for him to 
compete with men not so well endowed physically as 
he? Do you remember how he, in response to our 
begging, stepped into the ring after the games were 
closed and tossed that 16-pound hammer over 90 feet 
with one hand ? Yes, there must ha re been giants in 
those days. Most of us who meet Lindsay on the 
streets in New York think he still has some claim to 
that title. A firm believer always in that part of a 
man’s development which teaches him in contest to see 
the proper thing to do, and to do it, I can personally 
point with justifiable pride to the fact that among all 





H. H. Parker, ’82. 


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the leading spirits in college from ’78 to’82,—base-ball 
men, foot-ball men, and track athletes—after life has 
not shown us a single failure.” 

THE THIRTEENTH MEET. 

Hammer-throw was won by Laird ’84, distance 62 
ft. 6 1-2 in.; Sargent ’84, second. The three winners 
of the trials of the 100-yards dash were Oakes ’83 in 
11 sec., Bayley ’85 in 11 1-4 sec., and Barrett ’83 in 
11 3-4 sec. The seconds were Marston ’83, Hulbert ’84, 
and Brooks ’85. Weston ’85 won the shot put, dis¬ 
tance, 31 ft. 0 in., with Sargent ’84 second. L. Hinck¬ 
ley ’84 and Brooks ’85 tied for first place in the run¬ 
ning high jump on 5 ft. 3 in. Brown ’83 and Oakes 
also tied for second place. Mile walk, Matthews ’84 
winner, time, 8 min. 28 1-2 sec.; second place to Phil¬ 
lips ’83. In the two trial heats for the hurdle race 
Oakes and Brooks won easily with Barrett ’83 and 
Quimby ’86, seconds. Barrett heat the best previous 
Dartmouth record in the liop-skip-jump by 1 ft. 4 1-2 
in.; distance, 40 ft. 1 1-2 in.; L. Hinckley, second. 
Oakes won the quarter mile in 58 sec.; Hulbert ’84 
made it in 59 1-4 sec., Maxwell ’83 in 60 sec., and Bots- 
ford ’86, in 60 1-4 sec. Rogers, C. S. D., led the bicycle 
race, finishing in 4 min. 43 3-4 sec.; Bryan ’85, second. 
Oakes won the running broad jump, his last leap, which 
was the best, being 17 ft. 3 3-4 in.; Hinckley, second. 
Rolfe took first in the mile run, and Cunningham, 


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second. In the trial heats of the 220-yards dash, 
Oakes, Hatch, Marston, and Eldredge took places. 
Laird was declared victor over Whitney ’86 and 
Adams ’84 in the wrestling match, “ catch-as-catch- 
can.” Oakes was first in the final heat of the 220- 
yards dash; Eldredge, second; time, 23 1-2 sec. 
Hinckley beat the record by a quarter of an inch in 
the standing high jump; distance, 4 ft. 7 1-2 in. 
Half-mile run, Rolfe, 2 min. 20 sec.; Botsford, (second). 
In the pole vault, Brill, Agr., won; distance, 7 ft. 8 
in. Hulbert and Hinckley tied for second. Two- 
mile run, Rolfe, 13 min. 6 3-4 sec.; Parker ’85, sec¬ 
ond. 100-yards (final), Oakes, 10 3-4 sec.; Marston, 
second. Consolation race, Hatch ’86, 10 3-4 sec.; 
Maxwell, next. 


THE FOURTEENTH MEET. 

100-yards dash, Hatch ’96, 10 1-2 sec.; Bayley ’85, 
second. Running broad jump, Hulbert, 17 ft. 8 1-2 
in.; Brooks ’85, second. Mile run, Rolfe, 5 min. 
17 1-4 sec.; Botsford ’86, 5 min. 18 1-2 sec. Running 
high jump, 4 ft. 11 in.; Brooks, second. Hurdle race, 
Bayley, 18 3-4 sec.; Brooks, second. 220-yards dash, 
Hatch, 26 1-2 sec.; Hulbert, second, in 27 sec. Stand¬ 
ing high jump, Manchester ’86, 4 ft. 9 in.; Hulbert, 
second. Quarter mile, Weston ’85 and Hulbert tied 
in 56 1-4 sec.; Austin ’85, second. Pole vault, Aiken 
’87, 8 ft. 8 in., breaking record; Brill, second. Base- 


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ball throw, Cunningham ’85, 324 ft.; Brill, second, 
314 ft. 6 in. Half-mile run, Rolfe, 2 min. 15 1-2 sec.; 
Botsford, second. Shot put, Weston ’85, 36 ft.; Sar¬ 
gent ’84 second, 34 ft. 8 in.; record broken. Tug-of- 
war, ’84 pulled ’86; ’85 pulled' ’87, and ’84 pulled ’85. 
Two-mile run, Eastman ’87, 11 min. 56 sec. Hammer 
throw, Sargent, 65 ft. 8 in.; Weston, second. Sack 
race, Brooks, first. Light-weight boxing, Cunningham. 
Heavy-weight, Chaffin ’86. Consolation race, El- 
dredge ’84, 58 1-2 sec.; Hutchinson ’83, second, 59 sec. 

THE FIFTEENTH MEET. 

Finals in 100-yards dash, Wilson ’86,11 sec.; Brad¬ 
ley, second. Running broad jump, Adams, Agr., 16 
ft. 2 1-2 in.; Cunningham, second. Shot put, Weston ; 
Scruton ’87, second. Final heat in hurdle, Bradley, 
20 1-2 sec.; Annan ’85, second, and Hale ’86, third. 
Hammer throw, Weston, 62 ft. 10 1-2 in.; Weeks ’85, 
second. Running high jump, Cobb ’88, 4 ft. 10 in.; 
Annan, 4 ft. 7 in. Standing high jump, Hale, 4 ft. 
1 1-2 in.; Brill, 4 ft. 1 in. Three-legged race, Brooks 
and Cunningham, 13 3-4 sec.; Parker and Goodenow, 
second. Base-ball throw, 362 ft. 6 in.; Brill, 347 ft. 
3 in. Half-mile run, Munn ’87, 2 min. 24 1-2 sec. 
Wrestling, Adams, first; Shaw ’87, second. Kicking 
foot ball, Yiau ’88, 140 ft. 10 in.; McCarthy, second. 
Pole vault, Aiken first and Brill second. Bicycle 
race, Hubbard ’85, 4 min. 33 sec.; Wardwell, second. 


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Final heat of the 220-yards dash, Bradley, 26 1-2 sec.; 
Johnson, second. Two-mile run, Munn, 11 min. 59 
sec.; Eastman, second. Quarter mile, Parker ’85, 
58 1-4 sec.; Cunningham, second. Buckley ’87 won 
the heavy-weight boxing, and Phillips the light-weight. 
Eighty-six won the tug-of-war. 

On the whole, the fourteenth and fifteenth field 
meetings were not up to the usual standard. In the 
fall of ’85 a trainer was secured, and more interest 
shown. There was some expectancy of being repre¬ 
sented at Mott Haven in the spring, but the league was 
not formed until the following year. 

SIXTEENTH MEET. 

Throwing the base-ball, Viau, 347 ft. 8 in.; Rand- 
lett, second. 100-yards dash, Wilson ’86, 10 1-2 sec. 
Livermore ’88, second. Standing broad jump, Hale 
’87, 11 ft.; Veazey ’89, 10 ft. 10 1-2 in. Both broke 
the previous record. Mile run, Eastman, 5 min. 10 
sec.; Pattee ’88, second. Standing high jump, Hale 
and Yeazey tied at 4 ft. 1 1-2 in. Running broad 
jump, Bettinger ’86, 16 ft. 4 1-2 in.; Hale, second. 
Bicycle race, Noyes ’89, 3 min. 55 sec., lowering the 
previous record over half a minute; Kennard ’89, sec¬ 
ond. Running high jump, Cobb ’88 and Hildreth, 
D. M. C., tied at 5 ft. 1 1-2 in. Half-mile run, Liver¬ 
more, 2 min. 26 1-4 sec.; Batchelder, second. In the 
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’88, and in the heavy-weight Kennard succumbed to 
Haynes, D. M. C. Shot put, Chandler ’88, 32 ft. 
8 1-4 in.; Buckley, second. Quarter mile, Livermore 
’88, 54 3-4 sec.; Batchelder ’86, second. Running 
pole jump, Aiken ’87, 18 ft. 10 1-2 in.; Hale, second. 
220-yards final, Wilson ’88, 24 1-2 sec.; Gove ’88, 
second. Pole vault, Aiken, 8 ft. 9 1-2 in., breaking 
his previous record ; Batchelder, second. Hammer 
throw, Buckley, 64 ft. 8 3-4 in.; Bodwell ’88, 63 ft. 
7 in. Hurdle race, Keay ’88, 18 3-4 sec.; Cobb, 
second. Two-mile run, Eastman, 11 min. 19 3-4 sec.; 
Pattee, second. Light-weight boxing, Keay, first; 
Parker, second. Middle weight, Eastman, first; Simp¬ 
son ’87, second. Consolation race, Bartlett ’87, 58 1-2 
sec. Five gold medals were won by Aiken ’87, Hale 
’87, Kennard ’89, Noyes ’89, and Yeazey ’89, and 
awarded them for breaking Dartmouth records. 

SEVENTEENTH MEET. 

The seventeenth field meeting of the Dartmouth 
Athletic association took place Oct. 6 and 7, 1886. 
The events were attended with the usual success, and 
these were the winners: Throwing base-ball, H. W. 
Randlett ’87, 322 ft.; W. £. Scruton, second. 100. 
yards dash, in the finals, were Livermore, Johnson 
’87, Keay, Williams, St. George, and Ruevsky; Liver¬ 
more won; Keay, second. Standing broad jump, 
Goodenow, D. M. C., 9 ft. 6 in.; Yeazey, second, 


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Mile run, Bartlett ’87, 5 min. 2 3-8 sec.; Ellis, second. 
Standing high jump, Yeazey ’90, 4 ft. 2 1-2 in.; Hale 
and Goodenow tied for second. Shot put, Scruton, 31 
ft. 8 in.; Buckley, second. Quarter mile, Livermore, 
55 3-4 sec.; St. George, second. Running broad jump, 
Chase, D. M. C.; Barton, second. Running high 
jump, Cobb; Canty, second. Johnson ’87 beat Buck- 
ley in heavy-weight boxing. Eastman won the light¬ 
weight. Half mile, Ellis; Chase, second. Kicking 
foot-ball, Odlin ’90, 146 ft. 10 in.; Yeazey, second. 
Standing bar vault, Odlin ; Hale, second. Pole vault, 
Pond ’90, 9 ft. 2 1-2 in. ; Aiken, second. Hammer 
throw, Bodwell ’88; Buckley, second. Running pole 
jump, Aiken, 20 ft. 3 1-2 in.; Barton, second. Stand¬ 
ing high kick, Buckley, 7 ft. 8 in., record; Yeazey, 
second. Obstacle race, Cobh. Two-mile run, East¬ 
man. Running high kick, Buckley, 8 ft. 3 in., record ; 
Odlin, second. Hurdle race (final heat), Keay; Rand- 
lett, second. Ninety’s tug-of-war team won from ’89 
in the finals. Three-legged race, Randlett and Cobh; 
Goodenow and Shapleigh, second. Sports closed with 
an exciting game of hall, in which ’87’s class team de¬ 
feated ’88, 3 to 2, Aiken and Yiau being opposing 
pitchers. 


THE EIGHTEENTH FIELD MEETING 

of the Dartmouth Athletic association was held on 
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there had been considerable discussion in regard to a 
spring meeting, but undoubtedly nothing would have 
been done at this time had not the impetus furnished 
by the new intercollegiate association given it a start. 
There were few entries, but those that did enter gave 
a good exhibition. The result was as follows : 

Throwing base-ball—Randlett, first, 322 1-2 ft.; 
Scruton, second. Two-mile run—Ellis, first; East¬ 
man, second. 100-yards dash—St. George, first; 
Gove, second. Standing high jump—Barrows, first; 
Keay, second. Putting shot—Chandler, first; Buck- 
ley, second. Mile run—Prescott ’90, first; Canty, 
second. Hammer throw—Bodwell, first; Buckley, 
second. Bar vaulting—Williams, first; Pringle, sec¬ 
ond. Half mile—Bartlett ’87, first. Pole vaulting— 
Pond ’90, first. Hurdle race—Keay ’88, first. The 
club swinging by Phillips was the entertaining exhibi¬ 
tion that he always made it. No prizes were offered. 

The officers of the athletic association for the college 
year 1886-’87 were,—Chauncey Gleason, president; H. 
W. Knight, vice president; G. H. Hitchcock, secretary ; 
C. L. Sawyer, treasurer. 

FIRST INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET. 

The first field meet of the New England Intercol¬ 
legiate Athletic Association was held at Charter Oak 
Park, Hartford, Ct., May 27, 1887. Dartmouth sent 


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a strong team well trained and full of the characteristic 
“ sand.” 

The first event was throwing the base ball, which 
Campbell of Williams succeeded in winning with a 
throw of 356 ft. \ in. Chandler ’88, of Dart¬ 
mouth, came within three inches of taking second. 

Eastman ’87 and Gilbert of Amherst were the rivals 
in the two-mile event. Eastman had a lame ankle and 
feared to enter, but he was full of Indian blood and 
spurted away from his man after the last 100-yards 
line had been reached, and won handsomely. Time, 
10 min. 36 sec. Keay ’88 won his heat in the 
100-yards dash in good form, but in the finals he got 
put back for starting before the pistol, and was unable 
to regain his loss. Chandler ’88 was the one looked 
to in the shot-put, but by an unwarrantable decision his 
put was declared to be \ in. less than his opponent’s, a 
cloth tape being used in the measurements. 

Dartmouth was surely unlucky in the mile run. 
Prescott passed all his rivals on his last spurt, and 
would have won “ hands down ” but * for the fact that 
he threw a shoe; as it was he came in second. The 
spirits of the New Hampshire men were very low at 
that point, and “ Dartmouth luck ” was heard. 

Bodwell ’88 came to their relief by winning the 
hammer throw by 5 feet. Dartmouth made no struggle 
for the 220-dash. 

Another agreeable surprise was found in Cobh ’88 



FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


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who tied for first place in the running high jump at 5 
ft. 6 in., although his best previous record was only 
5 ft. 3 in. 

The phenomenal act of the meet was the winning of 
the half mile event by Prescott. He was behind until 
close to the finish when he made a desperate spurt and 
outstripped all competitors. His time was 2 min. 3 
2-5 sec. 

Amherst had the bicycle race, as hardly any other 
college entered in the event. 

Pond failed to win a place in the pole vault. 

In the quarter-mile race eighteen men entered, all 
running in one heat. It was anybody’s event until the 
last third, each college cheering on its favorite ; but it 
remained for the supporters of the “ green ” to see 
Gove ’88 emerge from the crowd and cross the line first. 

Keay ’88 ran a beautiful race in the hurdles and 
won in 18 2-5 sec. Cobb was “ pocketed ” in his race 
by an Amherst and a Brown man. All saw and con¬ 
demned this action, but the judges left before this, the 
last event, and there was no redress. But it mattered 
nothing. Dartmouth men were happy. Green was the 
prevailing color. A pennant was won. 

The officers for 1887-88 were,—F. E. Smith, presi¬ 
dent ; C. A. Perkins, vice president; G. V. Dearborn, 
secretary; 0. S. Davis, treasurer. 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


FALL OF 1887. 

The Nineteenth field meeting of the Dartmouth 
Athletic Association took place on Oct. 5 and 6, 1887. 
The weather was favorable to good records, but very 
little training had been done, and the general interest 
was not up to the former standard. 

The first event was the base-ball throw, easily won by 
Chandler ’90, distance 320 ft. 6 in.; Bacon, second,. 
296 ft. 5 in. . 

The 100-yards dash was won by Keay ’88, in 
the slow time of 13 sec.; Banfil ’91, second. 

Veazey won the standing broad jump, distance 9 ft. 
4£ in., with Pond ’90 a close second at 9 ft. 3 z in. 

Ellis won the mile in 4 min. 561 sec., Rowe second, 
5 min. 6 sec. 

In the standing high jump Veazey cleared 4 ft. 3 in., 
and Scruton 4 ft. 2 in. 

Livermore and Banfil were the only contestants in 
the 440-dash, the former winning easily in slow time, 
59 sec. 

Scruton ’87 won the running broad jump with only 
16 ft. 7 in. to his credit. Jones was second. 

Keay ’88 was a strong hurdler, and easily won his 
event in 19^ sec. Cobb, second. 

Walker was first and Keay second in the 220-flat. 

The boxing created unusual interest. E. A. Pond 
took first in the heavy weight, and Fassett ’90, second. 

















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In the light weight Abbott ’91 was the best man, with 
Norton ’91, second. 

Six men competed in the half-mile race. Ellis ’89 
broke the line first, with Eggleston ’91, second. Time 
2 min. 13 sec. 

The second day: 

Kicking foot-ball was won by Viau, 154 ft. 8 in.; 
Norton, second. 

The standing bar vault was won by Williams ’90, at 
6 ft. 1 in.; Hovey ’88, second. The regular pole 
vault was Pond’s event, won at 8 ft. 6 in.; Norton, 
second. 

“ Bodwell ’88, 64 ft. 1^ in.; Chandler 59 ft. ” was the 
result of the hammer throw. 

The best record-breaking of the meet was done by 
Pond in the running broad pole vault, in which he cov¬ 
ered 20 ft. 6 in. or two feet better than the record. 
Norton was second. 

The standing high kick was a tie between Kendall 
and Veazey at 7 ft. 8 in.; Carson ’91, second. The 
running high kick was Kendall’s at 8 ft. £ in., Veazey 
being second. 

Ellis won the two-mile run in 11 min. 5 sec.; second, 
Eggleston. 

Smith won the light-weight wrestling. 

The three-legged race was won by Keay and Cobb 
’88, Bartlett and Redfield ’89 being second. 

There had been much training for the tug-of-war 


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contest which proved very exciting; ’91 was victo¬ 
rious. 

In this meet records were broken by Viau, Wil¬ 
liams, Pond, and Kendall, who were given gold medals. 
It would appear that all of these records are very 
poor, but it must be remembered that they were made 
on a very slow grass track, a proper allowance for 
which would make them appear, all creditable and some 
meritorious. 

F. P. Dartt of Dartmouth was elected president of 
the New England Athletic Association at the annual 
meeting held at the Quincy House, Boston, Feb. 11. 
Bowdoin’s resignation was accepted and the Worcester 
School of Technology admitted. The ball-throw and 
bar-vault were dropped from the list of events, and the 
mile walk and the tug-of-war were added. 

In the spring meet, which was held to try the can¬ 
didates for the Worcester team, these records were 
made: 

One-mile run, won by Prescott ’90, in 4 min. 54 sec.; 
one-fourth mile run, by Gove ’88, in 56 sec.; two-mile 
run, by Ellis in 10 min. 31f sec.; running high jump, 
by Barrows ’90, 5 ft. 2 in. ; putting shot, by Chandler, 
34 ft. 1 £ in.; 100 yards dash, by Keay, in 11sec.; 
standing high jump, by Barrows, 4 ft. 5 in. ; tug-of- 
war team was composed of Doring 91, Kelley ’88, 
Jones ’90, Canty ’90, weight 649 lbs. ; mile walk, by 
Humphreys ’90, in 9 min. 52 £ sec.; 120-yards hurdle 


FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


97 


race, by Keay ’88 in 20 sec.; half-mile run, by Prescott 
’90, in 2 min. 14 sec.; 220-yards dash, by Gove ’88 in 
25 sec.; throwing hammer, by Bod well ’88, 75 ft. 
5 in. 


A VIRTUAL VICTORY. 

The second Intercollegiate Athletic Meet was one 
of the closest and most spiritedly contested ever held 
in America. Dartmouth and Amherst, the great lead¬ 
ing rivals, disputed every point with dogged determin¬ 
ation, and it was only by the most unexpected accident 
that the “ green ” fell one point behind. The event 
had been well advertised, and the colleges fully aroused 
to the importance of the occasion. By noon the city 
of Worcester (Mass.) was swarming with college men. 
In the morning President Dartt, of the Association, 
called a meeting to change and re-adjust the order of 
the events. The drawing for positions also took place. 
Before one o’clock Agricultural Park began to show 
signs of life, and a little later the delegations from the 
various colleges began to arrive in heavily lpaded 
barges, bearing a variety of colors. By two o’clock 
there were two thousand people assembled. The 
weather was perfect, the track was in fine condi¬ 
tion, and the hearts of all were expectant of new lau¬ 
rels for their favorite college. The officers of the day 
were,—Judges, Prof. C. F. Emerson, of Dartmouth ; 
Mr. S. E. Winslow, of Worcester; Mr. R. S. Wood- 
7 


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ward, of Worcester. Referee, Mr. G. W. Carr, of 
the Manhattan Athletic Club. 

The first event of the meet was the quarter-mile 
run. There were ten entries, including Gove and Pres¬ 
cott, of Dartmouth. The runners got a clean start and 
did some pretty work, but it was evident, from the 
first, that Gove was the fleetest footed. He won in 
fine style in 53 seconds, lowering his own record by If 
seconds. Next came the preliminary trial of tug-of- 
war, between Dartmouth and Brown. The latter was 
weak and unskilled, thus falling an easy prey. 

One of the most exciting races of the meet was the 
two-mile run. Seven men lined up and jogged off 
together, two dropping out in the first lap. Dartmouth 
pinned her hopes on Ellis ’89. He did not try to 
lead, and appeared to he doing his work indifferently, 
until the last lap, when two more men had fallen out, 
and Gilbert of Amherst had a good lead. Whether 
Ellis had been saving himself intentionally, or suddenly 
became rejuvenated at the thought of losing to Am¬ 
herst,.is not known. At any rate he made one final 
spurt, and, in his characteristic manner, pumped his 
way down the home stretch, breaking the line in 10 
minutes, 24 4-5 seconds. 

The standing high jump had been taking place at 
the same time. Five men entered. Barrows, of Dart¬ 
mouth, soon fell out. Crook, the world wonder, of 
Williams, succeeded in clearing 4 ft. Ilf in., breaking 
the record by f of an inch. 


FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


99 


The preliminary heats of the hundred yards dash 
were contested next in order. The first heat found 
Jacobs, of Amherst, a winner, with Allen, of Worcester, 
second. 

Dadmun, of Worcester, and Mendenhall, of Brown, 
were the first two men in the second heat. 

The third heat was won by Cooke, of Brown; Keay, 
of Dartmouth, being a close second. 

The mile run was disputed by ten men. Wells, of 
Amherst, won; Lee, of Williams, was second; and 
Prescott, of Dartmouth, third. 

Eight men contested the running high jump. Cobb 
and Amadon tied for second place, Ludington winning 
first at 5 ft. 4^ in. 

The final heat of the 100-yards dash was next 
in order, and proved to be an interesting event. Keay, 
of Dartmouth, ran a beautiful race and won in 10 3-5 
seconds. 

The hammer throwing and the mile walk were now 
put on at the same time. The former resulted in the 
breaking of another record, and one point more was 
added to the credit of the “ green,” Bodwell taking it 
at 82 ft. 9J in. The mile walk was won by Bradford, 
a “dark horse,” from Worcester. 

Williams won over “ Tech.” in the second prelimi¬ 
nary tug-of-war. 

Nine men, with light-weight racers, appeared for the 
two-mile bicycle race. A good start was obtained, 


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Sparhawk, of Dartmouth, taking the lead, which he 
held until the third round, when a “ header ” retired 
him from the race. Cobh then led the procession 
until the last round, when Delabarre, of Amherst, 
passed him and won. Time, 6 min. 51 sec. 

Crook, of Williams, took the standing broad jump 
at 10 ft. 5$ in., breaking another record. Garfield 
was second. 

Allen, of Worcester, won the first heat in the 220- 
yards dash in 25 sec.; Dadmun the second in 24 sec., 
with Gove a close rival. 

The half-mile run opened with nine participants, but 
these were rapidly narrowed down. Porter, Amherst’s 
lame man, surprised every one by coming in first. Lee, 
of Williams, was second. 

Warriner, of Amherst, won the pole vault at 9 ft. 
7 in.; Shannon, of Trinity, second. 

Luddington, of Amherst, won the first heat in the 
hurdle race. Keay, of Dartmouth, won the second 
heat. 

Chandler, of Dartmouth, out-distanced seven men in 
the shot put at 33 ft. 1 in. His Amherst rival was 6 
inches behind. 

Warriner took the running broad jump at 20 ft. 2£ 
inches, Jewett, of Worcester, being second. 

Allen, Gove, Dadmun, and Buckley were in the 
finals of the 220-yards dash. Allen, first; Dadmun, 
second; was the result. 


FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


101 


In the final tug-of-war pull between Dartmouth and 
Williams, Dartmouth won the drop, but after the 
hardest and most unreasonable kind of a struggle it 
remained a tie; and at the close of the other events it 
was contested again. The drop was even, and the rope 
wavered back and forward, until the last 15 seconds, 
when Dartmouth made a final desperate “ heave ” and 
won by four inches. 

The final heat of the hurdle race was to decide the 
pennant between Dartmouth and Amherst. Keay, of 
Dartmouth, led Ludington, of Amherst, in fine form 
until close to the finish. Keay stumbled and fell, and 
thus the event and the pennant were lost. 



SUMMARY. 

First. 

Second. 

Amherst, 

7 

3 

Dartmouth, 

6 

y 2 

W. P. I., 

2 

5 

Williams, 

2 

5V 2 

Trinity, 

0 

2 

Brown, 

0 

1 

Wesleyan, 

. 0 

0 


The officers of the Dartmouth Association for 1888- 
9 were,—P. S. Boynton, president; J. H. Quint, vice- 
president ; J. Abbott, secretary; W. H. Robinson, 
treasurer. 

FALL MEET OF 1888. 

Cold weather and high winds contributed to make 
the fall meet of 1888 one of low records. 


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The first event was throwing the base-ball, won by 
Williams ’90, with Woodcock ’91, second. 

Williams won the first heat in the hundred yards, 
and Norton came in second. Weeks ’92 took the 
second heat, with St. George, D. M. C., second. 

Ellis won the two-mile race, with Eggleston 91, 
second. 

Coon ’92 appeared as a new athlete in the standing 
broad jump and won at 9 ft. 1? in. Scruton ’91 
covered two inches less. 

The quarter was won by Norton ’91, in 60f seconds ; 
second, Humphrey ’90. 

Ellis took another medal by winning the mile run. 

In the standing high jump Weeks cleared the bar 
at 4 ft. 4§ in., Coon being second. 

Perkins put the shot 31 ft. 1^ in.; Upham, 30 ft. 
6 in. 

It is a remarkable fact that the running broad jump 
was taken this year at 16 ft. 4 in., while there was a 
man in college, who, before his graduation, was to 
break the association record with a jump of 21 ft. 1^ 
in.; that man was Potter ’92. 

Allison ’91 won the mile walk, with French second. 

Scruton was the best hurdler; Frost, second. Time, 
18f seconds. 

For the 220-yards dash Williams and Norton drew 
away from St. George and Humphreys, coming in in 
the order named. 
















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103 


’90 pulled ’92 in the first tug-of-war trial. 

The final heat in the 100-yards dash was won by 
Williams in 10 3-4 seconds, with Norton second, at 
10 7-8. 

’91 won from ’90 in tug-of-war. The four class 
teams were made up as follows: ’89—Randolph, 
Perkins, Robie, Ellis (anchor) ; ’90—Canty, Jones 
Scruton, Upham (anchor) ; ’91—Little, Wright, Stan¬ 
ley, Doring (anchor) ; ’92—Weston, Partridge, Fol¬ 
som, Weeks (anchor). 

Jones ’90 won the heavy-weight boxing, and also 
the medium weight. Eggleston ran a slow half mile 
in 2:31. Coon vaulted 8 feet. Little threw the 
hammer 67 feet. 

Coon made a record in the running high kick at 8 
ft. 3 1-2 in. Scruton and Jones won the three-legged 
race ; time, 16 1-2 seconds. Ford won consolation 
quarter. 

At the annual convention of the N. E. I. A. A., 
Feb. 9, 1889, at Boston, Sparhawk, of Dartmouth, was 
elected vice-president, and G. H. Moses a member of 
executive committee. Amherst favored Springfield, 
but Worcester was agreed upon as the place for hold¬ 
ing the next meet. It was voted to drop from the list 
of events the standing high and broad jumps. This 
was regarded as a direct thrust at W illiams, who had a 
king of these events in Crook ’89. Dartmouth sup¬ 
ported her in the opposition, and the events were con- 


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tinued until the meet of ’93. The 220 hurdle race 
was added. 

ANOTHER PENNANT. 

It is the pleasure of the historian again to delineate 
the details of another victory, and note the accession 
of another pennant to loyal supporters of the “ green.” 
The team which went to Worcester was made up of 
men who had trained faithfully for weeks, and the 
result was only just reward for their hard work. The 
pennant of the previous year belonged to Dartmouth 
in the most vital sense, and the fact that it does not 
to-day hang in Wilson Hall is no discredit to the team 
of 1888. 

Of the scores of college men who assembled in the 
Worcester hotels the day before the meet, very few 
looked to Dartmouth for more than two or three 
events, while the papers were united in assigning the 
chief contest for leadership to Technology and Am¬ 
herst ; Williams was mentioned occasionally, hut Dart¬ 
mouth was overlooked. Entire neglect was impossible, 
however, when the representatives of the Old College 
finally mustered, for the sixteen brawny athletes were, 
as usual, by far the most formidable in appearance as 
well as in fact, and many anxious glances were cast at 
the Dartmouth barge as it started for the grounds, fly¬ 
ing the pennant won two years before. The meet had 
been thoroughly advertised, and about 2,000 people 


FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


105 


were present. A hundred strong of Amherst men 
were occupying the centre of the grand-stand, in a 
confidently jubilant state, only to be chagrined later to 
see their team overwhelmingly defeated. Technology 
occupied the entire south end of the stand, while the 
Dartmouth men were seated at the other end. Nearly 
all the prominent eastern colleges were represented, 
and the hilarious cheers that broke forth to greet each 
winner added to the excitement of the day. The track 
was heavy from recent rains, making the best of 
records impossible. 

The first event called consisted of the trial heats in 
the 100-yards dash. The first was won by Slayback, 
of Wesleyan, in 10 4-5 seconds, with Hare, of Amherst, 
second; the next by Mills, of Worcester, in the same 
time, Raley, of Amherst, coming in second; in the 
third heat Williams ’90, of Dartmouth, surprised his 
most sanguine friends. He was perfectly steady amid 
many false starts, and, at the shot, he was off like a 
flash. So much had been said about Dadmun’s fast 
time that few expected better than second place for 
Dartmouth in this, but Williams led prettily from the 
start, and in the last half pulled away from his oppo¬ 
nents, finishing in 10 3-5 seconds, equalling Keay’s 
time of the previous year. Dadmun was second. 
When the finals came later, Williams’s work had been 
pressed into so short time that he was unable to better 
his record, but won in good form, with Mills second. 


106 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


In the trial heats of the tug-of-war, Williams got 
two inches drop from Worcester, and, after hard strug¬ 
gling, increased it to 2^ inches. Dartmouth got 11 
inches from Brown and then rested, Doring, with his 
giant back, holding the whole team. A “ heave ” in 
the last half minute increased this to 31 inches. 
Brown pulled in better form than the previous year. 

The half-mile run came next and went to Amherst’ 
Porter passing Taylor, of Worcester, in the last eighth, 
and winning in 2 min. 6§ sec. 

The 120-yards hurdle race was run in one heat. 
Scruton, of Dartmouth, got off well, and led for the 
first eight hurdles, but was not quite fast enough, and 
finished a good second, Ludington being first. Time, 
19 seconds. 

The pole vault was progressing while other events 
were being contested, as it took so much time. Coon, of 
Dartmouth, dropped out at 8 ft. At 8 ft. 4 in., Went¬ 
worth, of Williams, broke the pole and fell with a 
crash, but was not seriously injured. Marshall, of 
Worcester, won at 8 ft. 8 in. 

The trial heats of the 220-yards dash resulted in the 
following winners: Allen, of Worcester, 24 1-5 sec.; 
Chancellor, of Amherst, second; Mills, of Worcester, 
23 sec.; Campbell, of Williams, second; Williams of 
Dartmouth, 22 3-5 sec.; Dadmun second. Williams 
proved his staying powers in the latter event. The 
time being so fast, the track was measured and 


FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


107 


found to be 33 ft. short. The trials, however, the 
judges allowed to stand. 

The contest for the running high jump brought 
forth hearty applause in appreciation of the beautiful 
work of Amadon, of Williams. Contrary to expecta¬ 
tion, the event was a “ walk over.” Ludington, upon 
whom Amherst based her hopes, dropped out at 5 ft. 

in., while Amadon sailed over the bar at 5 ft. 6 in. 
Of the other eight entries, many had been given a 
winning reputation the day before, but none did even 
passable work. 

In the mile run, Amherst saw fit to smile. Wells 
won in 4 min. 44 2-5 sec., Lee, of Williams, being 
a distant second. This made Amherst’s third event 
with several trials, and her section of the grand 
stand broke out into yells which were followed with 
victory whistling. The Dartmouth men looked along 
to the last part of the programme and held their feel¬ 
ings in a state of expectancy. Meanwhile the standing 
high jump had been going on. Crook, of Williams, 
was, of course, a sure winner, and the contest was for 
second place. Amadon and Eaton tied at 4 ft. 8 in., 
but finally the latter made another inch. Crook’s 
jump was 4 ft. 10 in. This was very fast company. 
Coon ’92 cleared 4 ft. 7 in., which would have won in 
any ordinary contest. 

Three Amherst men and one from Worcester lined 
up for the two-mile bicycle race. It was an extremely 


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exciting contest. Delabarre, of Amherst, by a final 
spurt, won over Harriman, of Worcester. Time, 7 min. 
33 2-5 sec. 

There was nothing said then about Dartmouth. 
Bets were rife on Amherst and “ Tech.” for the 
championship. But the “ boys in green ” had a sur¬ 
prise in wait for all. Fourteen men, all in fine con¬ 
dition, took their places for the quarter-mile run. 
For the first hundred yards they were well bunched 
together, but then they began to separate. Mills led 
at a fast gait for the next hundred yards, with Rowe, 
of Dartmouth, at his shoulder, taking his pretty, clean 
strides. When they turned the last bend Rowe was 
ahead and clipping an equestrian pace. By ten yards, 
he won in 52 1-5 sec., breaking all previous records. 
This was Dartmouth’s first prize, and all, save Amherst, 
joined in the cheer. 

Then came the hammer throw, which had been going 
on within the track. As was expected, it fell to Dart¬ 
mouth, although on account of some technicality in 
the ruling, the men fouled considerably and were 
unable to do their best. Abbott, of Dartmouth, landed 
it at 80 ft. 7 in.; Randolph ’89 and Walker ’91 took 
second and third. 

The trials in the 220-yards hurdle brought out 
other Dartmouth men. Scruton, running for the lead 
to the last hurdle, stumbled and was unable to pick 
himself up in time to get a place. Hoisington, of 


FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


109 


Trinity, won in 29 2-5 sec., with Richmond, of Brown, 
second. In the second heat, Slayback, of Wesleyan, 
came first, in 27 3-5 sec., with Humphreys, of Dart¬ 
mouth, second. 

After the final heat of the 100-yards dash, 
which, as has been said, was won by Williams ’90, of 
Dartmouth, came the running broad jump. Ten men 
were entered for this event, and nine were on hand 
for trial. It was in this, too, that another Dartmouth 
man came to the front. Humphreys out-distanced all 
competitors at 20 ft. 3 in., Davis, of Williams, being 
second. This tied Dartmouth and Amherst, and excit- 
ment reigned. Ellis, of Dartmouth, ran two miles 
with the contestants of other colleges watching his 
heels, finishing in 10 min. 36 4-5 sec. Nichols, of 
Williams, was second. 

Next came the 220-yards hurdle. All eyes were, 
by this time, unexpectedly turned on Dartmouth. In 
this event they saw Humphreys add another first to 
the winning score. He fought hard and won by a 
narrow margin from Hoisington, in 26^ sec. 

The final heat of the tug-of-war was intensely excit¬ 
ing and was watched with unabated interest. The 
Williams team had a peculiar position, almost if not 
quite, on their plank, but it was allowed. As a result, 
they got 21 in. drop and settled back chuckling. But 
the invincible Doring was soon heard to cry that 
desperate, appealing, sound u Heave! ” “ Heave! ” The 


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rope sawed and wavered. In 20 seconds the rope 
stood a tie. “ Heave ! Heave! ” again rang from the 
Dartmouth side. It was a terrible struggle, hut Dart¬ 
mouth won by one inch. 

The shot put went to Amherst, although Perkins 
and Walker of Dartmouth took second and third. A 
new record was made at 35 ft. 3 in. 

The standing broad jump was won by Crook at 10 
ft. 1^ in., with Amadon second. 

Bradford, of Worcester, won the mile walk in 8 min. 
10 3-5 sec. 

The finals for the 220-yards dash came last. Wil¬ 
liams, of Dartmouth, dashed by his men in the last half 
and won in 23 2-5 seconds. Mills, of Worcester, second. 

Dartmouth had won another pennant, and bonfires 
were soon burning in Hanover. 

Of the six records broken, four were smashed by 
Dartmouth men, Rowe, Humphreys (2), and Williams. 


Dartmouth, 

SUMMARY. 

First. 

8 

Second. 

3 

Amherst, 

5 

1 

Williams, 

3 

7 

W. P. I. 

2 

4 

Wesleyan, 

0 

1 

Trinity, 

0 

1 

Brown, 

0 

0 


The officers of the Dartmouth Association for 1889- 
’90 were: C. G. Dubois, president; A. M. Strong, 

























Elmer C. Potter ’92. 


















FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


Ill 


vice-president; F. L. Hayes, secretary; H. E. Colby, 
treasurer; J. C. Sanborn, senior director. 


THE TWENTY-FIRST FIELD MEETING 

of the Dartmouth Athletic Association took place 
Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 9th and 10th, 1889. 
The weather was bad and little interest was shown. 
Two records, however, were broken; one, the 220- 
yards dash, which was run by E. Williams ’90 in 23^ 
seconds, and the other, the running high kick, in which 


G. B. Coon ’92 touched 
records were very poor, 
marshal and G. H. Moses 
and winners follow: 

Throwing base-ball, 
100-yards dash, 

Two-mile run, 

Standing high jump, 

Shot put, 

440-yards dash, 

Mile walk, 

120-yards hurdle race, 
Running high jump. 

Mile run, 

Throwing hammer, 
220-yards dash, 
Tug-of-war, 


8 ft. 3^ m. Some of the 
H. Hutchinson ’90 acted as 
’90 as starter. The events 

E. Williams ’90. 

E. Williams ’90. 
J. F. Allison ’91. 

G. B. Coon ’92. 
J. Walker ’91. 

F. E. Rowe ’91. 
M. D. Barrows ’91. 

E. W. StockweU ’93. 

Coon ’92. 
Rowe ’91. 
N. T. Abbott ’91. 
E. Williams ’90. 
Ninety-One. 


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Pole vault, 

Half-mile run, 

High kick, 

Boxing, 

Standing broad jump, 
Running broad jump, 


Coon ’91. 


E. W. Stockwell ’93. 

Coon ’91. 
Undecided. 
Coon ’92. 
E. C. Potter ’92. 


The reason for the apparent decline in general track 
and field athletics so soon after the great victory at 
Worcester is hard to explain. It is true that excellent 
athletes graduated with the class of ’89, but much 
greater would therefore seem the necessity for training. 
Some reasons, whatever they may be, account for the 
failure of securing another pennant until the spring of 


1893. 


The convention of the N. E. I. A. A. held at Bos¬ 
ton made no material changes. Amherst again tried 
to have the place of holding the meet changed to 
Springfield, but failed. Sparhawk of Dartmouth was 
president of the association. 

THE INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET OF 1890 

was unsuccessful from a Dartmouth standpoint. The 
strong athletes who had been winning in the two or 
three years previous were gone, and new men had to 
be developed. Those who participated in this meet 
acquitted themselves creditably, although they were 
not skilled in enough events to bring another pennant 


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to Hanover. The heats in the 100-yards dash were 
first in order. In the first, Raley, of Amherst, won in 
10 2-5 sec. with Williams ’90, of Dartmouth, second. 
Boardman, of Amherst, won the second heat, followed 
by Dowd, of Brown. Hall ’92, of Dartmouth, was 
second in the third heat, with Ewing first. Williams 
won the trial heat of the tug-of-war, by only f of an 
inch, from Dartmouth. The half-mile run had thirteen 
contestants, and was an extremely exciting race be¬ 
tween Rowe *91, of Dartmouth, and Jackson, of Am¬ 
herst. Rowe was unable to win from his more endur¬ 
ing opponent. The first heat of the 120-yards hurdle 
went to Ralsten, of Wesleyan; second place to Dad- 
mun, of Worcester; second heat was won by Luding- 
ton, of Amherst; Scruton, of Dartmouth, running a 
good second. The pole vault brought out a large list of 
contestants, and, as usual, lasted for a long time. Ew¬ 
ing finally won at 9 ft. 3 in., and Potter, of Dartmouth, 
tied Hovey, of Brown, for second place. The 220- 
yards dash was a fine race, and was handsomely won 
by Williams, of Dartmouth, in the record-breaking 
time of 23 2-5 seconds. The second heat was won by 
Dadmun, with Bush^e, of Williams, second. Shattuck, 
of Amherst, was the winner of the third heat, his sec¬ 
ond being Campbell, of Williams. The two-mile bicy¬ 
cle race had five contestants, but Hallock, of Amherst, 
won in 7 min. 14 2-5 seconds. The mile run was won 
by Wells, of Amherst; Carr, of Williams, second; both 
8 


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breaking the record; time, 4 min. 35 4-5 sec. Throw¬ 
ing the 16-lb. hammer had thirteen contestants, and 
was won by Abbott ’91, of Dartmouth, who threw it 
83 feet, 10 inches, breaking the record. Little, of 
Dartmouth, was a good second. The quarter-mile run 
had ten starters and proved a hot race. Shattuck was 
the best man, Jackson, of Amherst, and Rowe, of 
Dartmouth, tying for second place. The greatest feat 
of the meeting was the breaking of the world’s amateur 
record in the standing high jump, by Crook, of Wil¬ 
liams, clearing in a beautiful form 5 feet ljr inches. 
Fish, of Worcester, was second. The second heat of 
the tug-of-war came next, and after a desperate strug¬ 
gle was won by Williams by only of an inch. The 
220-yards hurdle race was contested in two heats, the 
first being won by Bulkeley, of Trinity, in 28 1-5 sec¬ 
onds, and the second by Ide, of Dartmouth, in 28 4-5. 
The second places were obtained by Humphreys, of 
Dartmouth, and Ralsten, of Wesleyan. In the mile 
walk, Gregg distanced ten starters and won in 7 min¬ 
utes 22 seconds. The running high jump went to 
Barrows, of Brown, at 5 feet 5 inches; Francis, of 
Williams, second. The final heat of the 100-yards 
dash was Raley’s, with Williams, of Dartmouth, sec¬ 
ond. Time, 10 2-5 sec. The shot-jiut went to Alex¬ 
ander, of Amherst; Houghton, second. Crook, of 
Williams, jumped 10 feet 4|- inches, with Gresner, of 
Trinity, second. The finals in 120 yards hurdle was 


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won by Ludington breaking a record in 17 2-5 sec¬ 
onds ; Ralsten, of Wesleyan, second. The running 
broad jump had ten contestants and was won by Pot¬ 
ter, of Dartmouth, at 20 feet 2 inches, with Hum¬ 
phreys, of Dartmouth, second. Another record was 
broken in the two-mile run by Wells, who won in 10 
min. 23 3-5 sec., Carr, of Williams, being a slow sec¬ 
ond. The final heat in the 220-yards hurdle was 
beautifully won by Ide, of Dartmouth, with Ralsten, of 
Wesleyan, second. The final heat in the 220 flat also 
went to Dartmouth, Williams ’90 doing it in 23 4-5 
seconds. Dadmun, of Worcester, was second. 

Amherst won with 10 first places to 4 for Dart¬ 
mouth, 2 for Williams, and 1 for Brown. It became 
evident that the Dartmouth men labored under great 
disadvantages. In training for the meet they had 
only a rough grass track, while their opponents had 
the improved facilities. These odds, however, were 
destined not long to continue. 

FALL MEET OF ’90. 

C. S. Little ’91 was athletic manager of 1890-’91 
and succeeded in bringing out good athletic material. 

The fall handicap meet was carried out in the ordi¬ 
nary manner although the weather was unfavorable. 
The general interest was greater than for the past two 
years. The events and winners follow : 

Throwing the base-ball—G. W. Boutelle ’93, first; 


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Tuxbury ’93, second. 100-yards dash, first heat— 
Rowe ’91, first; Hall ’92, second ; second heat—Hall 
’94, first; Baker ’93, second ; third heat—Claggett ’94, 
first; Scruton, D. M. C., second. Two-mile run— 
Allison ’91, first. Coon ’92 won the running high 
jump at 5 feet. Putting the shot—George ’91, first; 
Merrill ’94, second ; Potter ’92, third. George’s put 
was only 32 ft. 8 in. Heavy weight wrestling—George 
threw Merrill; Ranney threw George, and was declared 
champion. Quarter mile—Rowe ’91, first; Claggett 
’94, a close second ; Hall ’92, third. 120-yards hurdle 
—Scruton, D. M. C., first, 19 sec.; Potter ’92, 
second. Mile run—Rowe ’91, first; Kellar ’93, second ; 
Allison ’91, third; time 5 min. 31 4-5 sec. Merrill 
’94, won the hammer throw at 74 ft. 1 in. ; Potter ’92, 
second; Little ’91, third. The sophomores, ’93, were 
pulled at tug-of-war by the freshmen, ’94, by one half 
inch. 

The first event of the second day was the final 
heat of the 100-yards dash, won by Rowe ’91, Clag¬ 
gett ’94 being second. In the light weight wrestling 
Abbott ’91 threw Allen, D. M. C., and also Heywood 
’93, winning the title of “ champion.” 220-yards dash 
—Rowe ’91, first; Claggett ’94 was a close second. 
Time 24 4-5. Standing broad jump—Coon ’92, first; 
Baker ’93, second; Hall ’92, third. The juniors, ’92, 
pulled the freshmen, ’94, at tug-of-war. Half-mile run 
—Rowe ’91, first; Price ’92, second. Running broad 


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jump—Potter ’92, first, at 21 feet, breaking the record ; 
Bowers ’94, second. Hall and Weston, ’92, won the 
three-legged race with Hall and Curtis, ’94, second. 
Sawyer ’94 won the obstacle race ; Allison ’91, second. 
Kicking foot ball—Norton ’91, first, at 147 feet. Ran- 
ney, D. M. C., second ; Weston ’93, third. Joyce and 
Allen, D. M. C., won the knapsack race, Hall and 
Price, ’92, second. 220-yards hurdle—Scruton, D. M. 
C., first; Potter ’92, second. Running bases—Potter 
’92 and Hall ’92 tied at 15 3-5 sec., making a record; 
Rowe ’91, second. Pole vault—Baker ’93, first; Coon 
’92, second. Potter was too badly handicapped to win. 
’92 won the bean-pot race, ’91 was second. The final 
heat in the tug-of-war between ’91 and ’92 was excit¬ 
ing, as it determined the class championship between 
those classes ; ’91 won. The mile walk which had 
taken place and been protested, was again contested, 
and Warren ’91 won; Grover ’94 was second. 

The seniors scored 65 points, the juniors, 64, sopho¬ 
mores, 26, freshmen, 37, D. M. C., 25. Rowe ’91 and 
Potter ’92 were the greatest point-getters of the meet. 

FIRST MID-WINTER MEET. 

The first mid-winter athletic meet at Dartmouth was 
held in the gymnasium March 21, 1891. It was very 
successful, and seemed destined to be a permanent insti¬ 
tution. The sports began with interesting fencing bouts 
in which Roudanez, D. M. C., Thompson and Hildreth, 


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’92, Hey wood and Hunt, ’93, and Barrows ’94 were the 
contestants. Roudanez easily won. Price ’92 de¬ 
feated Abbott ’91 in the middle-weight boxing; Burn¬ 
ham, D. M. C., defeated Morrill ’91 in the light-weight 
boxing. Bar vault—Weston ’92, first; Potter ’92, 
second ; Barry ’93, third. Horizontal bar exhibition 
won by Weston ’92; parallel bars, by Barry ’93. 
Lakeman ’92, Weston ’92, and Barry ’93, gave an ex¬ 
cellent exhibition of tumbling. Coon ’92 won the 
high kick at 8 ft. 21 in. Standing high jump—Burn¬ 
ham, D. M. C., 4 ft. 5 in; Potter ’92, second. Stand¬ 
ing broad jump—Burnham, D. M. C., 9 ft. 5 in. ; Rou¬ 
danez, second. Weston and Potter, ’92, Smalley and 
Lewis, ’94, entered the running high jump ; Weston 
won with Potter second. Shot put—George ’91, 33 
ft. in.; Potter, second. 

The exercises closed by an exhibition of Indian club 
swinging by a class under Professor Worthen. Pro¬ 
fessors Hardy, Emerson, and Worthen acted as judges. 

MEET AT SPRINGFIELD. 

The Intercollegiate Athletic Meet held at Springfield 
in the spring of 1891, resulted in a victory for Amherst, 
with Dartmouth a good second. The events and win¬ 
ners were as follows : 100-yards dash, first heat—G. B. 
Shattuck, of Amherst, first, 10 2-5 sec.; G. A. Bushee, 
of Williams, second. Second heat—H. B. Slayback, 
of Wesleyau, first, 10 4-5 sec.; E. K. Hall, of Dart- 









































































































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mouth, second. Third heat—F. J. Raley, of Amherst, 
first; C. R. Hodgdon, second. Fourth heat—R. L. 
Pellet, of Amherst, first; H. C. Ide, of Dartmouth, 
second. Fifth heat—S. P. Boardman, of Amherst, 
first; Marvell, of Brown, second. Final—Boardman, 
of Amherst, first, 10 2-5 sec.; H. C. Ide, of Dartmouth, 
second. Half-mile run—H. L. Dadmun, of Worcester, 
first, 2 min. 1 2-5 sec., breaking the record held by H. 
B. Prescott, of Dartmouth; Taylor, of Worcester, sec¬ 
ond. 120-yards hurdle, first heat—C. G. Russell, of 
Amherst, first, 17^ sec.; F. H. Ralsten, of Wesleyan, 
second. Second heat—E. C. Potter, of Dartmouth, 
first, 17 4-5 sec.; F. W. Cole, of Amherst, second. 
Final heat—F. H. Ralsten, of Wesleyan, first, 17 sec., 
breaking the record; E. C. Potter, of Dartmouth, 
second. Two-mile bicycle race—H. B. Hallock, first; 
G. D. Pratt, second. One-mile run—C. 0. Wells, of 
Amherst, first, 4 min. 41 sec.; J. M. Gallager, of 
Worcester, second. Quarter-mile run—G. B. Shat- 
tuck, of Amherst, first, 50 1-5 sec., breaking record 
held by Rowe, of Dartmouth; F. E. Rowe, of Dart¬ 
mouth, second. 220-yards hurdle, first heat—E. Leon¬ 
ard, of Amherst, first; H. B. Slayback, of Wesleyan, 
second. Second heat—H. C. Ide, of Dartmouth, first, 
26 4-5 sec., breaking previous records; F. H. Ralsten, 
of Wesleyan, second. Third heat—Dadmun, first; 
E. V. Wormer, of Williams, second. Final heat— 
Ralsten, of Wesleyan, first, 26 2-5 sec., breaking all 


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records; H. C. Ide, of Dartmouth, second. One-mile 
walk—W. W. Gregg, of Amherst, first, 7 min. 17 sec., 
breaking previous record of 7 min. 22 sec. held by 
himself, W. H. Chase, of Williams, second. 220-yards 
dash, first heat—R. L. Pellet, of Amherst, first, 23 2-5 
sec.; Dadmun, of Worcester, second. Second heat— 
A. A. Ewing, of Amherst, first, 23 2-5 sec.; F. E. 
Rowe, of Dartmouth, second. Final heat—Pellet, first, 
22 3-4 sec., breaking the record ; A. A. Ewing, second. 
Two mile run—Russell, of Amherst, first, 10 min. 24 
sec.; Levy, of Williams, second. 

Pole vault—E. C. Potter, of Dartmouth, first, 9 ft. 
9 3-5 in; Ewing, second. In a trial for record, Potter 
cleared 10 feet, breaking the association record. 

Williams won both heats in tug-of-war. 

Standing broad jump—F. H. Burnham, of Dart¬ 
mouth, first, 9 ft. 11 1-2 in.; C. A. Edgerton, of Wil¬ 
liams, second. 

Putting shot—N. D. Alexander, of Amherst, first, 
37 ft. 4 1-2 in., breaking record; Guy George, of Dart¬ 
mouth, second. 

Running high jump—Barrows, of Brown, first, 5 ft. 
8 in.; Lyman Allen, of Vermont, second. 

The great sensation of the meet was in throwing the 
hammer. Amherst felt so sure of the event that her 
men wagered odds in large sums. C. S. Little, famil¬ 
iarly known as “ Squash,” hurled the heavy missile 6 
feet farther than the Amherst man, and nearly 12 feet 


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beyond the record. His distance was 94 ft. 1 1-2 in. 
F. W. Allen was his opponent. This made the Dart¬ 
mouth men jubilant. 

Standing high jump—Walker, of Amherst, first, 4 
ft. 9 1-2 in.; Fish, of Worcester, second. 

Running broad jump was easily taken by E. C. Pot¬ 
ter, of Dartmouth, 21 ft. 1 1-2 in., breaking record held 
by C. S. Humphreys; Hall, of Wesleyan, second. 

FALL MEET OF ’91. 

E. K. Hall ’92 was the manager of athletics this 
year, and did much to restore the college to its former 
prestige. 

One of the most successful meets of the association 
was held in the fall of 1891. There were the largest 
number of competitors since the formation of the In¬ 
tercollegiate Association in 1887. Professor E. J. 
Bartlett acted as judge and Merrill Shurtleff as 
starter. 

The ball throwers, as usual, tried their skill first, 
and F. L. Smalley ’94 won with a handicap of 25 ft., 
although Shurtleff had the longest actual throw. 
Hayes ’95 was second. Next came the trial heats in 
the 100-yards dash. Ide ’93 was on the scratch, with 
seven men on three- and five-yard marks ; but he broke 
the line first in 11 seconds, with Bowers ’94 second. 
In the second heat Potter ’92 and Claggett ’94 were 
scratch men, with six men ahead. Welton ’94 with 


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three yards handicap, got first, in 11 seconds, with 
Potter second. E. K. Hall ’92 started from the scratch 
in the third heat, passed eight men, and won in 10 2-5 
seconds. McKay ’93 and D. Hall ’94 tied for second 
place. There were nineteen men entered for putting 
the shot, and nearly all answered to their names. The 
contest soon narrowed down to Potter ’92, a scratch 
man, Shurtleff ’92, with two feet, and Norris ’94, with 
four feet. Potter won at 34 ft. 9 in. ; Norris second, 
Shurtleff third. The mile walk had four entries. Ford 
’95 won in 8 min. 40 sec. Eight men tried the run¬ 
ning high jump. Baker ’93 cleared the bar at 5 ft. 2 
in., and won; Lewis ’94 was next to him, with Weeks 
’92 third. Next in order was the 120-yards hurdle. 
The starters were Potter ’92 scratch, Earle ’92 and 
Lyon ’94 with six yards each, and Baker ’93 with 
four yards. Potter got the lead at the third hurdle 
and took the race, easily winning in 20 3-5 sec.; Lyon 
second, Baker third. Claggett and Hall, ’94, was the 
combination which won laurels in the three-legged race. 
McKay and Ide, ’93, were a close second. Foster ’95 
won the standing broad jump at 9 ft. 4 1-2 in. (two 
inches handicap) ; Baker ’93 covered 9 ft. 5 1-2 in., 
and Hall ’92, 9 ft. 5 in. The first heat in the 220- 
yards dash was contested next in order. Ide ’93 was 
an easy winner, Potter ’92 being second. In the second 
heat Hall ’92 won with Claggett ’94 pressing him hard. 
The tug-of-war men from ’95 and ’94 were now ready 


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for the “ soph-freshie” contest, over which there has 
always been the greatest rivalry. When time was up 
the rope had moved towards ’94’s end 1 1-2 inches. 
Ninety-three defaulted to ’92. Coon ’92, Potter ’92, 
and Baker ’93 contested the standing high jump. 
Baker won at 4 ft. 5 in., Coon and Potter ranking sec¬ 
ond and third. The two-mile run was an interesting 
event, with a large number of starters. Burbank ’93 
was the only scratch man, but he soon dropped out, 
as did Partridge ’92, the only representative of his class. 
Hall ’94, and Rowe ’94, running from the 25-yard 
mark, took matters easily until the last lap, when they 
rushed ahead. Hall broke the line first, with Rowe 
at his heels. Swallow ’94 was third. The 220-yards 
hurdle race was a pretty exhibition. Ide ’93 was 
scratch and Potter had two feet. This was Ide’s event, 
and he had little difficulty in dashing ahead, but, mis¬ 
understanding the finishing point, he slackened, and 
Potter went past him and won. Lyon ’94 third. Eight 
men lined up for the quarter-mile dash. Potter ’92 
and Claggett ’94 were scratch men, while Pearson ’93 
had the limit handicap. Claggett got the lead when 
half way around, and won as he pleased in 56 seconds, 
which is equivalent to, at the most, 53 seconds on a 
good track. F. L. Smalley ’94 came in second, Wads- 
sworth ’94 third. Potter strained a muscle in his leg 
and had to drop out at three fourths of the distance. 
McKay and Ide showed the best skill in the knapsack 


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race. Partridge ’92 won the obstacle race. The final 
heat of the 100-yards dash was a pretty race. Ide was 
off like a flash and won first place, Hall ’92 and Potter 
being second and third respectively. Four men tried 
pole vaulting. The bar was cleared at seven feet by 
all. Lewis ’94 and Coon cleared eight feet. Baker 
’93 also kept in the race until he broke his pole. Pot¬ 
ter went up to 9 ft. 3 in., winning first; Lewis was 
second, Baker third. In the mile run which followed, 
Hall ’94 and Rowe ’94 were scratch men, with about a 
half dozen ahead. Rowe finished first in 5 min. 38 
sec., Hall second, and Bugbee ’95 third. Webster ’94 
kicked the football 144 feet and won; Ide second, 
Reed ’92, third. In the running broad jump Potter, 
the college champion, was unable to get a place on 
account of the handicaps. Welton ’94, with a handi¬ 
cap of three feet, made an actual jump of 19 ft. 11 in. 
Ide got second, and Lewis third. Ide won the 220- 
yards dash, with Claggett second. Time 24 sec. In 
the hammer throw Potter, with 10-feet handicap, won 
at 80 ft. 10 in. F. L. Smalley ’94 was second at 80 
ft. (18 ft. handicap); Abbott ’92 (scratch) third, 78 ft. 
Hall ’92 and Potter tied at running the bases in 15 
2-5 sec.; Claggett and Ide tied at 15 3-5. Dwight 
Hall ’94 started on the scratch in the half mile and 
won easily; F. L. Smalley second, and Bugbee third. 
The class contest at tug-of-war resulted in a victory for 
’92, by one fourth of an inch. Ninety-two’s team was ; 


FIELD AND TRACK ATHLETICS. 


125 


Partridge, Weston, Folsom, and H. F. J. Norton ; 
’94’s—Harris, Lyon, Clogston, and Ames. The Soph¬ 
omores (’94) won the class flag race, which was the 
last event. Ninety-four won the class championship 
with 87 points. Ninety-two came next. 

SECOND INDOOR MEET. 

The second annual indoor meet was held in the 
gymnasium March 26. The winners were as follows : 

Fence vault—Weeks ’92, first; Bush^e ’94, second. 
Heavy-weight boxing—W. S. Thompson ’92 beat 
O’Connor, D. M. C. Standing high jump—Baker 
’93, first; Lewis ’94, second. Fencing—Knapp ’95 
beat Hey wood ’93; Barrows ’94 beat Russell ’93 ; 
Barrows won the finals. High kick—Coon ’92, O’Con¬ 
nor second. Light-weight boxing—J. W. H. Pollard 
’95 beat H. W. Newell ’95. Middle-weight boxing— 
Stockwell, D. M. C., beat G. D. Price ’92. Parallel 
b ars —Price. Middle-weight wrestling—Newell threw 
Heywood. Running high jump—N. T. Abbott ’92, 
first; Lewis ’94, second. Rope climb—J. E. R. 
Hayes ’95, first; J. W. H. Pollard ’95, second. 
Three jumps — Baker ’93, first; O’Connor, second. 
Tumbling—Lakeman ’92, first; E. K. Hall, second. 
Hack ’95 threw Harris ’94, wrestling. Potter broke 
his pole in attempting to break the pole vault record. 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


DARTMOUTH MADE A HARD FIGHT. 

The sixth meet of the New England Intercollegi¬ 
ate Athletic Association was held at Springfield, 
Mass., May 25, 1892, and was, on the whole, very 
successful. Amherst again won the championship, but 
Dartmouth made a creditable fight, breaking three of 
the six records broken; and Ide proved himself the 
greatest athlete of the meet, winning the prize offered 
to the man who should be so judged. The points, 
however, were as follows: Amherst, 7 firsts and 4 
seconds; Dartmouth, 4 firsts and 8 seconds; following 
in order were Brown, Worcester, Williams, Wesleyan, 
Vermont, and Trinity, the last two failing to obtain a 
point. 

Heats in the 100-yards dash came off first. In the 
first heat Shattuck, of Amherst, lined up amid great 
applause, as many supposed it was easily his race, but 
Weeks, of Brown, and Welton, of Dartmouth, won the 
first two places. Hall ’92, of Dartmouth, won his heat. 
The finals were a magnificent spectacle. Weeks, of 
Brown, and Brooks, of Amherst, ran neck and neck 
with Hall, not the thickness of his body behind. In 
the run-off Weeks won. 

The half-mile run was a slow race. Price, of Dart¬ 
mouth, surprised the spectators by pushing from the 
rear to second, and within eight feet of first place on 
the home stretch. Jackson, of Amherst, won. 








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In the 120-yards hurdle race Potter, of Dartmouth, 
came in second to Ludington in the first trial heat. 
Russell, of Amherst, won the second heat, with Briggs, 
of Wesleyan, and Lyon, of Dartmouth, tied for second 
place. Russell won in the finals, with Briggs second. 

The quarter mile belonged to Shattuck as a fore¬ 
gone conclusion. Marvel, of Brown, was a slow second. 

The mile was hotly contested by Bugbee, of Dart¬ 
mouth, and Jarvis, of Wesleyan, the latter breaking the 
tape only two feet in advance. Time, 4 min. 39 2-5 
sec. 

Pratt, of Amherst, made a new record in the bicycle 
race, at 6 min. 22 4-5 sec. 

The 220-hurdles was a beautiful race to Dartmouth 
men. Ide, Potter, and Lyon, of Dartmouth, won 
places in the trials, and Ide and Potter were first and 
second respectively in the final heat. 

Amherst and Worcester took first and second in the 
2-mile run. 

The old “ Wah-hoo-wah ! ” resounded at the end of 
the 220-yards dash. Before the race began Shattuck, 
the Amherst pet, trotted out in front of the grand 
stand in an applause-inviting manner, as much as to 
say, “ See how easily I win this.” The men lined up. 
The pistol cracked, and like arrows from their bows 
the men darted forth. Every eye was squinting down 
the track to see who was ahead. “ Shattuck ! Shat¬ 
tuck ! ” yelled the Amherst men. But a short little 


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fellow was ahead of him, spinning along beautifully. 
“ Ide ! Ide ! Ide! ” soon rang from the grand stand. 
Shattuck was beaten. Ide kept his lead, finished 
ahead, and the Dartmouth men were wild with delight. 

Gregg, of Amherst, won the mile walk, with Brow¬ 
nell, of Brown, next. Time 7 min. 20 sec. 

The first of the field events was the pole vault, 
which four men contested. Potter’s great record of 
the previous year was wofully broken. Towne, of 
Williams, gave a magnificent exhibition, clearing the 
bar at 10 feet 9 inches. Ewing cleared 10 ft. 6 in., 
and Derby, of Worcester, just 10 feet. 

The Dartmouth tug-of-war team had hard work to 
let out the rope as fast as the Williams men pulled it 
in. It was probably the last contest of its kind that 
will ever be contested in the Association meets. 

The shot-putting contest was won by Alexander, of 
Amherst, at 38 feet 2% inches. Newton, of Wesleyan, 
was second. 

The standing broad jump was given to Proctor, of 
Worcester, by the judge. Burnham, of Dartmouth, 
made the same jump precisely, according to first meas¬ 
urement ; but when it was observed that the men were 
tied, the incompetent official shaved the distance of the 
latter by -J of an inch. It was a clear case of so called 
“ robbery,” and was generally so regarded. 

Ellis, of Brown, won the hammer throw, but could 
not touch Little’s record. In this event, too, there was 


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much room for criticising the judge. A quarter of an 
inch between two hammer throws of over 90 feet in 
distance measured on different lines and over rough 
ground with an ordinary tape, is, to any sensible man’s 
mind, an unreasonable difference ; and yet that was the 
basis of the judge’s decision in depriving Dartmouth 
of the hammer throw or a tie for the same. Abbott, 
of Dartmouth, threw it 91 feet 4 1-4 inches. 

Abbott, of Dartmouth, won the running high jump 
easily, and broke a record at 5 ft. 9 in. Macomber, 
of Brown, cleared 5 ft. 8 in. 

Welton, of Dartmouth, won the running broad jump 
at 20 feet 9 7-8 inches. 

Fish, of Worcester, won the standing high jump, 
clearing 4 feet 7 inches; Hall, of Wesleyan, second, 
Lewis, of Dartmouth, third. 

This was the last event. Dartmouth had made a 
plucky fight against great difficulties. Two events 
were lost by small margins—the hundred and the 
mile—and two more were lost by unwarrantable deci¬ 
sions on the part of the judge. Only first places 
counted, of which Amherst had 7 and Dartmouth 4. 
Reckoning 5 for each first place, 3 for each second, and 
one for each third, the score would stand, Amherst 
47, Dartmouth 45. Worcester won 2 firsts, Williams 
2, Wesleyan 1, Vermont 0. 

In the fall of 1892 athletics at Dartmouth received 
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GOVERNMENT OF ATHLETICS. 

The report of the advisory committee to the execu¬ 
tive committee of the alumni, recently submitted, 
contains the following recommendations regarding the 
government of our college athletics, which were car¬ 
ried out and will undoubtedly operate most beneficially 
for our athletic interests: 

First. We believe that it is of the greatest import¬ 
ance that physical education and athletic sports be com¬ 
pletely separated in their management the one from the 
other. That the college, by its faculty and trustees, 
should take the entire charge of the former, and the 
alumni and the under-graduates, with a due representa¬ 
tion of the faculty, of the latter. This plan makes phy¬ 
sical education a distinct department of college instruc¬ 
tion, having its proper and important place among the 
other departments. It should be supplied with an 
instructor well fitted for that particular work, and who 
could take charge of it as a separate department. 

Second. We believe that attendance upon class-work, 
in the instruction in physical training at the gymnasium, 
should be compulsory for all students for at least three 
half-hours each week during the whole college year. 

Third. We believe (as before stated) that athletic 
sports should be entirely under the control of the Alumni 
Association, subject to such rules and regulations as the 
trustees may from time to time see fit to make. In order 
to carry out this plan, we recommend that the alumni, 
at their annual meeting at Hanover in June of each year, 
choose an athletic committee consisting of nine,—three 


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to be members of the college faculty, three to be from 
the Alumni Association, and three to be from the upper 
college classes, one a Senior, one a Junior, and the third 
a Sophomore. This committee should serve one year, or 
until their successors are chosen. 

Fourth. That this athletic committee, in carrying 
out this plan of a general supervision of all athletic 
sports, shall appoint an advisory committee of three 
persons for each of the three associations of the students, 
—namely, for foot-ball, base-ball, and for track athletics, 
so called. Each advisory committee should be made up 
of the captain of the University team, chosen by the 
association it represents; a second member, who is a 
member of the association; and a third, who is a member 
of the Alumni Association and a resident of Hanover by 
preference. 

Fifth. That these three committees shall have con¬ 
trol over the sports, contests, and games of all kinds that 
come within the scope of their respective associations, 
under the general supervision and control of the ath¬ 
letic committee. 

Sixth. That this athletic committee shall recom¬ 
mend such rules and regulations as are necessary to gov¬ 
ern athletic sports, which, if approved by the trustees 
and adopted by the Alumni Association, shall be binding 
for the control and regulation of all athletic sports. 

Seventh. That at each annual meeting of the alumni 
there shall be chosen a treasurer to receive all funds, 
and pay them out upon the requisition of these advisory 
committees; each requisition to state the purpose for 
which the money is to be used, and to be subject to the 
approval of the athletic committee. 

Eighth. That the athletic committee shall make a 
full report to the Alumni Association, at the end of the 


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year, of all tlieir receipts and expenditures. Tliey shall 
also make a report of such events as they may deem 
worthy to be recorded, and state what recommendations 
they desire to make for the ensuing year. 

In accordance with these recommendations the com- 
Inittees suggested were Chosen as follows : 

General Committee on Athletics. 

Edward Cowles, M. D.; Prof. C. F. Emerson; 
Prof. T. W. D. Worthen; Sumner Wallace, Esq.; 
Isaac F. Paul, Esq., secretary; Charles F. Mathew- 
son, Esq., chairman; C. B. Gordon, manager for fpot- 
ball; C. W. McKay, manager for general athletics ; H. 
C. Ide, manager for base-ball. 

Advisory Committees. 

Foot-Ball. —S. L. Powers, Esq.; C. B. Gordon 
’93; W. A. Allen, captain. 

Athletics. —Prof. George D. Lord; C. W. Mc¬ 
Kay, manager; Dwight Hall, captain. 

Base-Ball. —Louis J. Rundlett; H. C. Ide, man¬ 
ager; F. H O’Connor, captain. 

Committees representing the college authorities 
have also been appointed as follows: 

Committee of Trustees on Athletics. 

C. P. Frost, M. D., W. J. Tucker, D. D., Judge W. 
M. Chase. 


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Committee of the Faculty on Athletics. 

Prof. J. K. Lord, Prof. A. S. Hardy, Prof. R. B. 
Richardson. 

C. W. McKay ’93 was manager of the team in 1892- 
’93. 

TWENTY-FOURTH MEET. 

The twenty-fourth annual handicap meet was held 
on the campus October 5 and 6, 1892. The entries 
were large, and class rivalry was intense, although ’94 
won the pennant for the second time. Ninety-six 
showed some good men in Eldred and Chase. Burnap 
’94 and Griffin ’95 each bettered the record in kicking 
the foot-ball. Bugbee ’95 and Lewis ’94 showed the 
result of faithful training. 

The officers of the meet were : Judge, Professor R. 
B. Richardson; timer, C. E. Webster ’95; starter, A. 
J. Ranney, D. M. C.; scorer, S. E. Burroughs ’94; 
marshal, F. N. Chandler ’93. The events and win¬ 
ners were: 

Throwing base-ball—Clagett ’95, 361 ft. 4 in. (25 
feet handicap) ; F. M. Weston ’96, 2d ; Hellen ’95, 
3d. 

100-yards dash—First heat, McKay, ’93,10 4-5 sec., 
Ide ’93, 2d; second heat, Burdette ’95, 10 3-5 sec., 
Claggett ’94, 2d ; third heat, Welton ’94, 10 3-4 sec., 
B. A. Smalley ’94, 2d. 


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Shot put—Newell ’95, 34 ft. 6 in. (6 feet handicap); 
Abbott ’96, 2d; Ford ’94, 3d. 

Mile walk—Wilson ’95, 9 min. 20 sec.; Townsend 
’94, 2d ; Ford ’95, 3d. 

Running high jump—Lewis ’94, 5 ft. 2 1-2 in.; 
Hack ’95, 2d; Chase ’96, 3d. 

120-yards hurdle—Lyon ’94, 20 sec.; B. A. Smalley 
’94, 2d ; Langmaid ’95, 3d. 

Three-legged race—Hall and Claggett ’94, 12 3-5 
sec.; Ide and McKay ’93, 2d ; Tarbell and Kelso ’95, 
3d. 

Standing broad jump—Lewis ’94, 9 ft. 8 in.; 
Baker ’93, 2d ; Griswold, D. M. C., 3d. 

220-yards dash—First heat, Ide ’93, 24 sec.; F. L. 
Smalley ’94, 2d ; second heat, Claggett ’ 94, 24 3-5 
sec.; J. W. H. Pollard ’95,2d; third heat, Eldred ’96, 
24 2-5 sec.; B. A. Smalley ’94, 2d. 

Tug-of-war, ’95 v. ’96, won by ’95 by half an inch; 
’93 v. ’94, won by ’94 by 2 1-2 inches. 

Standing high jump—Eldred ’96, 4 ft. 7 in.; Gris¬ 
wold, D. M. C., 2d ; Lewis ’94, 3d. 

Two-mile run—Bugbee ’95, 11 min. 40 sec.; Hall 
’94, 2d; Parker ’94, 3d. 

220-yards hurdle—Ide ’93, 28 4-5 sec.; B. A. 
Smalley ’94, 2d; Lyon ’94, 3d. 

Potato race—Ford ’95 ; Parker ’94, 2d ; I. J. Cox 
’96, 3d. 

Knapsack race—Ide and McKay ’93, 21 4-5 


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sec.; Ames and Bowers ’94, 2d; Lewis and Newell 
’95, 3d. 

440-yards dash—F. L. Smalley ’94, 56 2-5 sec.; 
Claggett ’94, 2d; Chase ’96, 3d. 

Obstacle race—J. W. H. Pollard ’95, 1 min. 5 1-5 
sec.; Newell ’95, 2d; Cassin ’94, 3d. 

100-yards dash (final)—Ide ’93, 10 4-5 sec.; 
Claggett ’94, 2d; Burdette ’95, 3d. 

Pole vault—Baker ’93, 8 ft. 6 in.; Lewis ’94, 2d. 
Mile run—Bugbee ’95, 5 min. 15 1-5 sec ; Hall ’94, 
2d ; Tarbell ’95, 3d. 

Kicking foot-ball—Burnap ’94, 156 ft.; Griffin ’95, 
2d ; Thornburgh ’95, 3d. 

Running broad jump—Welton ’94, 20 ft. 6 in.; 
Lewis ’94, 2d; Baker ’93, 3d. 

220-yards dash (final)—Ide ’93, 24 4-5 sec.; Clag¬ 
gett ’94, 2d ; Eldred ’96, 3d. 

Tug-of-war—’94 v. ’95, won by ’95 by 2 in. 

Hammer throw—West ’95, 79 ft. 3 in. (10 ft. hand¬ 
icap) ; Watson ’95, 2d; Clarke ’95, 3d. 

Running bases—Claggett ’94, 15 2-5 sec.; Wel¬ 
ton ’94, 2d; F. L. Smalley ’94, 3d. 

Half-mile run—Bugbee ’96, 2 min. 14 4-5 sec.; 
Parker ’94, 2d ; Tarbell ’95, 3d. 

Tug-of-war—’95 v. D. M. C., won by ’95 (Mason, 
Wheeler, C. W. Pollard, J. W. H. Pollard) by 2 1-2 in. 

Flag race—’94 (Hall, Claggett, Welton, Bowers), 
51 4-5 sec.; ’95 (Burdette, Bugbee, Sears, J. W. H. 


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Pollard), 2d; ’96 (Dinsmore, Chase, Jaquith, Eldred), 
3d. 

The medals and second prizes were presented to the 
winners Thursday evening in the old chapel, and the 
pennant for the class championship awarded to ’94, 
the points standing as follows : ’94, ninety-four; ’95, 
seventy-four; ’93, thirty-two ; ’96, seventeen ; D. M. 
C., seven. 

SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES. 

The annual convention of the N. E. I. A. A. was 
held at the Quincy House, Boston, February 11,1893. 
The most important business was the adoption of the 
revised constitution, in which are embodied many im¬ 
portant changes. The pennant hereafter goes to that 
college which shall win a plurality of points, counting 
first place five, second three, and third one, gold, sil¬ 
ver, and bronze medals to be awarded respectively. A 
list of events is incorporated, being the same as that 
of 1892, except that the standing broad jump, the 
standing high jump, and the tug-of-war are thrown 
out, and the two-mile bicycle race is to be ridden on safe¬ 
ties. To guard against professionalism, there was also 
a provision that no one shall compete at any meet who 
has not been a member of the college he represents at 
least six months previous thereto, and no one shall 
be allowed to compete more than four years. The 
executive committee, consisting of a member from the 






























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Junior class of each college, has final jurisdiction over 
all questions of protest. Bowdoin college applied for 
admission, and after short discussion was unanimously 
elected, making a total of nine colleges represented. 
The place of holding the meet was left to the execu¬ 
tive committee, which finally decided to change from 
Springfield to Worcester. 

THE DARTMOUTH TEAM IN THE B. A. A. MEET. 

In the great gathering of New England’s best ath¬ 
letes in Mechanics’ Hall, Boston, Feb. 11, 1892, under 
the auspices of the B. A. A., Dartmouth was well rep¬ 
resented, and her men covered themselves with glory. 
Although Bugbee did well in the mile run, it was the 
team race against Amherst that created the greatest 
interest. The Boston Herald spoke of the race as fol¬ 
lows : “ The college gang woke up when the Amherst 
and Dartmouth teams toed the scratch to battle for 
supremacy. G. B. Brooks (Amherst) and F. L. Smal¬ 
ley ’94 (Dartmouth) were the first starters, and Brooks 
led throughout his three laps by three yards, though 
he lost ground at the change of flags. W. W. Tucker 
was Amherst’s second man, and a corker he proved to 
be. He put twelve yards between himself and Dwight 
Hall ’94, of Dartmouth. But Hall put on a loping 
spurt at the finish of his turn, nearly catching Tucker 
at the flag, whereat the New Hampshire men began to 


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whoop her up. Ide ’93, Dartmouth’s third mau, set 
them all guessing. Setting sail for Belden, the Am¬ 
herst relay, who had a lead of two yards, he caught 
him on his second lap and led hy two yards at the end 
of his run. The Dartmouth delegation were by this 
time ready to fly. Their college cry rang out as Ide 
made his way around, and became a scream as Claggett, 
their last man, almost left Hodgdon, Amherst’s candi¬ 
date at the post. Claggett is a beautiful runner, going 
with a regular, even stride, and is as strong as an ox.” 
Claggett had made a gain of 40 yards, and had the 
race practically won when he threw a shoe. He ran 
with one shoe and only a slipping stocking on the 
other foot the rest of the race, but lost. Everybody 
recognized it as a victory for Dartmouth, and Amherst 
would not deny the claim. 

INDOOR MEET OF 1893. 

The third annual indoor meet of the Dartmouth 
Athletic Association was held Feh. 25, 1893, in the 
gymnasium. The entries were numerous, and the events 
well contested and interesting. The attendance was 
large, many ladies being present. The Dartmouth 
orchestra furnished excellent music. Professors Wor- 
then and G. D. Lord, and Ranney, D. M. C., acted as 
judges. The events and winners were as follows: 

Fence vault—Hayes ’95, 6 ft. 9 1-4 in. (6 in. handi¬ 
cap) ; Bristow, 2d; Wilson ’95, 3d. 


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Fencing—Reisz ’96 and Griswold ’96; won by 
Griswold. 

Light-weight boxing—C. W. Pollard and Tarbell 
’95; won by Pollard in two rounds. 

Standing high jump—Lewis ’94, 4 ft. 6 in.; Eldred 
’96, 2d. 

Light-weight wrestling—Ames ’94 and T. C. Ham 
’96; won by Ames. 

High kick—Stephen Chase ’96, 8 ft. 7 1-2 in., break¬ 
ing the record ; Lyon ’94, 2d. 

Middle-weight boxing—Thornes, D. M. C., Mitchell 
’96 ; won by Thornes. 

High dive—West ’95, 5 ft.; J. W. H. Pollard ’95, 
2d ; Ide ’93, 3d. 

Fencing—Russell ’93, Redenbaugh ’93; won by 
Russell. 

Parallel bars—J. W. H. Pollard ’95; Tabor, N. H. 
C., 2d. 

Heavy-weight wrestling—Cassin ’94, G. B. Frost 
’96 ; won by Cassin. 

15-yards dash (preliminary), four heats—won by 
Ide ’93, Bowers ’94, Kinney ’93, and Eldred ’96. 

Heavy-weight boxing—Thornes, D. M. C., and E. C. 
Bowles ’96; exhibition. 

Tumbling—J. W. H. Pollard ’95, Lakeman ’96, 
Tabor, N. H. C.; Pollard and Lakeman tied for first. 

Rope climb—Won by Hayes ’95, in 5 3-5 sec. 

Parallel bars—W. A. Redenbaugh ’93. 


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Exhibition club swinging—Thornes, D. M. C. 

Obstacle race—won by Brown ’96. 

Running high jump—Sparhawk ’93, 5 ft. 7 in. (4 
in. handicap); Chase ’96, 2d, 5 ft. 3 1-2 in.; Lewis 
’94, 3d, 5 ft. 3 in. 

Fencing—Hey wood ’93, v. Chapman, D. M. C.; 
won by Heywood. 

Elephant race—Lyon ’94 and Redenhaugh ’93; 
Eldred ’96 and J. W. H. Pollard ’95, 2d. 

15-yards dash, finals—Ide ’93; Kinney ’93, 2d. 
Time, 2 1-5 seconds. 

Middle-weight wrestling—won by Cassin ’94. 

The medals were awarded to the winners in the old 
chapel on the following Wednesday afternoon. 

THE GREEN WAVES. 

The following account of the meet of 1893 at Wor¬ 
cester, is taken in part from the Worcester Telegram 
of May 26, 1893 : 

Dartmouth, 40 ! 

Amherst, 24 1-3! 

That’s the brief story of yesterday’s sports. 

The occasion was, as all the world knows, the sev¬ 
enth annual championship meeting of the New Eng¬ 
land Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and yesterday 
was the fourth time in the history of the association 
that the event has taken place in Worcester. 

Glorious weather favored the sports. The rain that 


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had fallen over night came as a boon and a blessing to 
men and women alike, for it laid the dust and tem¬ 
pered the warm air. 

All day the hotels and the principal streets of the 
city were gay with the colors of the rival colleges. 

Young ladies by the hundred were brought into the 
city from afar by 

THEIR GALLANT ESCORTS, 

and wherever they went they sported their favorite 
college’s colors, and looked for all the world as pretty, 
as dainty, and as graceful as a fashion plate. 

In the morning there was shown the keenest rivalry 
between Dartmouth and Amherst. Of course the 
other colleges were to take part in the sports, but it 
was, naturally enough, the universal opinion that 

THE FIGHT FOR THE PENNANT 

would lie between Dartmouth and Amherst. The 
rivalry was all the keener, too, from the fact that Am¬ 
herst won a year ago, and Dartmouth has been waiting 
and hoping and praying for the chance to avenge 
herself. 

There was a great rush for the oval about 1 o’clock. 
Every “ dummy ” and electric car was laden down to 
the ground with a very precious human freight, and 
the road to the lake for a couple of hours was dotted 


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thickly with barges, carriages, and teams of every 
description. 


THE GAY COLORS WERE THERE. 

Every college in the league had its colors on the 
grounds. Early in the forenoon, A. G. Lalime, to 
whom the task of decorating the grounds had been 
allotted, took hold of the electric poles which are scat¬ 
tered around the grounds, and deftly manipulated 
these big structures till they looked quite gay in their 
new dressing. Every post was entwined in the color 
adopted by the particular college, and the whole was 
surmounted by a glory of five flags. The Amherst 
boys had engaged nearly half of the stand, and sat 
under a glory of five gay flags, from which there floated 
a variety of equally gay streamers. 

Brown occupied the middle of the stand, but not a 
bit of color or of bunting was shown there, except what 
the boys carried, to signify that they were on the 
grounds. On the further side of Brown, however, the 
familiar steel grey and crimson of the Tech was quite 
conspicuous. But here at a glance are the colors of the 
colleges that were shown on the grounds: 

Amherst, purple and white ; Bowdoin, white ; Brown, 
brown; 

DARTMOUTH, GREEN ; 

Trinity, dark blue and old gold; Vermont, straw and 








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dark green; Wesleyan, cardinal and black; Williams, 
royal purple; Worcester, steel grey and crimson. 

The gay crowd came rather leisurely to the oval, 
and there were few of the indications before 2 o’clock 
that the nine rival colleges coming were together to do 
battle for the athletic glory of the year. 

Amherst raised the first college yell, and then the 
Tech took up the refrain, followed by Dartmouth and 
Brown. 

Amherst was the most persistent as well as the most 
confident. They seemed to think it was Amherst’s 
day. 

The Worcester brass band came early on the field 
and kept matters lively. 

At 2 o’clock the stands presented a magnificent 
appearance. The stands were taxed to their utmost 
capacity, and the grounds, wherever a coigne of van¬ 
tage could be had, were lined thick with spectators. 

There were 3,000 people on the grounds, and there 
was scarcely a soul of them who did n’t sport some 
gay bit of bunting. 

The stand was a perfect mass of color, and all 
Worcester’s beauty seemed to be there in its prettiest. 

The sports 

BEGAN SHARP ON TIME, 

and they were the most successful and best contested 
ever held in the history of the association. 


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Only one trifling liitcli occurred all day. It took 
four hours and a quarter to complete the programme, 
but the crowd waited patiently to the end. 

THE OFFICERS OF THE DAY 

were as follows: Referee, George B. Morison, B. A. 
A.; clerk of the course, Harry L. Dadmun, W. A. C.; 
chief marshal, Col. Samuel E. Winslow, W. A. C.: 
scorer, W. Lindsey, Jr., B. A. A.; judges at finish, 
George W. Beals, B. A. A.; William L. Thompson, 
H. A. A.; Frank E. Heywood, W. A. C.; field judges, 
Dr. James R. Fitzpatrick, W. A. C.; Harry A. 
Adams, W. A. C.; timers, Fred M. Wood, B. A. A.; 
James G. Lathrop, John Graham; measurer, J. Frank 
Quinn; scorers for field events, George Crompton, H. 
A. A.; Maurice Stern, B. A. A.; starter, William F. 
Donovan. 

With the oval bathed in a flood of sunshine, the 
grandstands crowded to overflowing, and with hun¬ 
dreds of spectators on other parts of the grounds, the 
day’s sport opened sharp at 2 o’clock, with the 100- 
yard dash. There was a tremendous field of entries— 
39 in fact, and they were dispatched in half a dozen 
heats. There were only six absentees in the lot. 

In the first heat the starters were: L. I. Belden, 
Trinity; H. L. Twitchell, Amherst; C.. A. Brown, 
Bowdoin; B. F. Welton, Dartmouth; M. F. Brown, 
Dartmouth; W. H. S. Morey, Wesleyan. 


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Dartmouth began its glorious career by finding a 
winner of this heat in Welton, who caught the tape a 
good yard ahead of Twitchell. The time was 10 2-5 
sec. 

In the second heat the following crouched at Starter 
Donovan’s feet, awaiting the crack of his pistol: A. 
A. Brown, Amherst; E. H. Weeks, Brown; H. S. 
Patterson, Williams; J. A. Bowers, Dartmouth; M- 
C. Allen, Worcester; C. F. Lyon, Williams. 

Patterson captured this heat, with Weeks a close 
second. The result was rather a surprise to the boys, 
because it was thought that Weeks would have a com¬ 
paratively easy job in dismissing his opponents. His 
friends were satisfied, however, as long as he managed 
to get into the final. 

The winner’s time was 10 2-5 sec. 

The third had the following starters: T. V. Doher¬ 
ty, Bowdoin; B. A. Smalley, Dartmouth; C. W. Mc¬ 
Kay, Dartmouth; E. B. Aldrich, Brown; H. W. 
Goodspeed, Wesleyan; A. D. West, Dartmouth. 

Here again Dartmouth distinguished itself, McKay 
cantering in an easy winner by a yard and a half in 
10 2-5 sec., with Aldrich second. 

The fourth heat fell to A. B. P. Straight, of Brown, 
in the same time, 10 2-5 sec. 

Cushing won in 10 2-5 sec., and a hot race en¬ 
sued between Casey and Dana for second place. They 
clung so closely and so stubbornly to each other at the 
io 


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tape, that the judges gave a dead heat and placed them 
both in the final. The sixth heat was the slowest of the 
lot, Brooks, of Amherst, winning in 10 3-5 sec. The 
starters were: C. R. Hodgdon, Amherst; G. B. 
Brooks, Amherst; F. L. Stone, Worcester; G. H. 
Olney, Brown; C. A. Jaquith, Dartmouth. 

The Worcester lad delighted the Tech contingent 
by carrying the familiar steel grey and crimson into 
second place. 

The second men then fought it out between them 
for a place in the final, and this time last year’s cham¬ 
pion, Weeks, had no difficulty in dismissing the fleet- 
footed lads opposed to him. His time was 10 2-5 
sec. 

The final heat was exciting, and resulted in the 
smashing of the record previously held by Weeks. 
Brooks did not start, but the others all lined up in 
front of the pistol—Welton, Patterson, McKay, 
Straight, Cushing, and Weeks. They sprang from 
the mark beautifully together. Weeks was beaten 
from the start, and after the most desperate kind of a 
struggle Patterson won by a couple of feet from Mc¬ 
Kay, while the Dartmouth sprinter had Straight right 
at his heels. The time was 10 1-4 sec., while the 
previous record, established by Raley, of Amherst, in 
1890, and made by Weeks, of Brown, was 10 2-5 


sec. 


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THE HALF-MILE RUN 

brought out a big, unwieldy field, only 5 of the 26 
entered failing to turn up. The starters were : H. A. 
Sutton, Wesleyan; W. H. Tarbell, Dartmouth; R. W. 
Dunbar, Amherst; F. W. Rawle, Williams; S. W. 
Richardson, Brown; H. S. Lovejoy, Dartmouth; C. 
W. Albertson, Worcester; J. T. Gerould, Dartmouth; 
J. F. Forward, Trinity ; R. S. McGregor, Brown; F. 
W. Beckman, Amherst; J. M. Gallagher, Worcester; 
J. S. Knowlton, Bowdoin; J. S. French, Bowdoin; 
J. A. Evans, Williams; C. D. Hanson, Vermont; 
F. W. Parks, Worcester; B. E. Martin, Brown; 
F. W. Colburn, Brown; C. O. Seymour, Amherst; D. 
Hall, Dartmouth. 

The men got on the mark in double lines, and when 
they were set a-going everything for a moment was 
chaotic. The peds, however, soon unravelled them¬ 
selves from the tangle, and little Gallagher, one of the 
most promising runners in the Worcester athletic club, 
began to look like a winner. In the last quarter Han¬ 
son and Seymour collided, and the Amherst lad was 
thrown heavily to the ground. Beckman was evi¬ 
dently not in the race to win, but he coached his col¬ 
lege chum, Dunbar, all the way. A couple of hun¬ 
dred yards from home Sutton made a desperate bid 
for the lead, but he soon shot his bolt, and the 
Amherst man sped on, and passing Gallagher in the 


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straight, won by a couple of yards in 2 min. 5 4-5 sec. 
Gallagher was second, and Hall third. The time 
made by W. T. S. Jackson, of Amherst, a year ago, 
was 2 min. 5 2-5 sec. Hall of Dartmouth could have 
easily won if he had had a fair position in the start-off. 

120-yards hurdle race. 

There were seven starters in this event, out of an 
entry list of eight. They were dismissed in two heats. 
In the first there started: A. M. Lyon, Dartmouth; 
H. E. Field, Worcester; S. Chase, Dartmouth; W. H. 
Gage, Trinity. 

Chase had a bit of a snap in this event, as far as his 
heat went, and sent the Dartmouth boys into a parox¬ 
ysm of enthusiastic delight by smashing the record of 
17 min. 2-5 sec., made by last year’s champion, C. C. 
Russell, of Amherst, and catching the tape in 17 sec. 
flat. Gage, the Trinity man, dropped out 50 or 60 
yards from the finish, and Lyon, who came in second, 
managed to knock down all his hurdles but one. 

The other three men entered for this race made 

AN INTERESTING FIGHT 

of it, and all the more so from the fact that the trio 
included C. C. Russell, the champion. The three 
were: B. R. Briggs, Wesleyan; E. L. Steele, Wes¬ 
leyan ; C. C. Russell, Amherst. 

Russell did not belie the confidence of his friends, 


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and he scarcely needed the yells of encouragement 
that the Amherst crowd flung at him, for he shot over 
the line a winner by four yards in the record-smashing 
time of 17 sec. Briggs was second. 

In the final, Dartmouth continued to keep up the 
good work, for Chase not only 

KNOCKED THE AMHERST MAN’S RECORD 

all to pieces, but captured first place after a gallant 
struggle with Briggs, by a couple of yards, while the 
champion was beaten six inches by the Wesleyan man. 
When the magnificent time of 16 3-5 sec. was stuck up 
on the blackboard with Chase’s number flashing against 
it, the wearers of the green went frantic. They 
sprang to their feet as one man, brandished their sticks 
and their flaunting green, and when they had yelled 
themselves hoarse they broke into a war dance which 
shook the grandstand to its foundations. 

THE QUARTER-MILE DASH. 

The 440-yard dash had 32 entries, and of these 22 
stripped for the battle. There were three heats, in 
the first the following starters : J. A. Anderson, Wes¬ 
leyan; D. Colby, Dartmouth; H. A. Sutton, Wes¬ 
leyan ; F. E. Austin, Dartmouth ; L. H. Denison, 
Brown; F. P. Claggett, Dartmouth ; P. M. Goodrich, 
Williams. 

The first three were allowed to run in the final. 


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Anderson sprang off in front at the crack of Dono¬ 
van’s gun, but he was soon passed by Claggett, and 
after a hot race the Dartmouth champion won by a 
couple of yards. Anderson was second, and Good¬ 
rich, of Williams, third. The time was 53 1-2 sec. 
The starters in the second heat were these: C. A. 
Harrington, Worcester; E. O. Grover, Dartmouth; 
M. C. Allen, Worcester; H. E. Field, Worcester; F. 
W. Howe, Dartmouth; F. W. Marvel, Brown; C. W. 
Albertson, Worcester. Allen set the pace and won 
rather easily in 54 2-5 sec. Marvel was second, and 
he was followed by Harrington. The third heat had 
these starters: R. S. MacGregor, Brown; A. M. 
Chase, Amherst; E. H. Carleton, Bowdoin; O. Cha¬ 
pin, Williams; E. N. Casey, Brown ; G. B. Brooks, 
Amherst; T. F. O’Connor, Worcester; F. M. Belden, 
Amherst. This was the most desperate trial heat of 
the three. Casey led the way, and set a pace that was 
perfectly feverish. He kept the lead till the stretch 
to the line was reached, and then the two Amherst 
men, Chase and Brooks, shot past him like a flash of 
lightning. Casey fought his way gamely after them, 
and dropped helpless on the track as he caught the 
eye of the judges. The Brown lad made a hard, hot 
fight of it, hut only got third. Chase’s time was 
54 4-5 sec. 


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CLAGGETT THE CHAMPION. 

The final of the 440 was as exciting a bit of sport 
as was expected from the well contested trials that 
had led up to it. Here are the eager collegiates who 
rushed into the fray: J. A. Anderson, Wesleyan; F. 
P. Claggett, Dartmouth; M. C. Allen, Worcester; A. 
M. Chase, Amherst; F. W. Marvel, Brown; G. B. 
Brooks, Amherst; C. A. Harrington, Worcester; P. 
M. Goodrich, Williams; E. N. Casey, Brown. 

Claggett set the pace for the bunch after a pretty 
little start, but Allen pushed him hard till the bend 
was reached. After that the leader had matters 
pretty much his own way, and won beautifully. A 
hot fight took place, however, between Anderson and 
Brooks for second place. They ran neck and neck 
for nearly half the way, and then the Amherst man 
with a despairing burst of speed flung himself ahead 
just at the line and got second place. The time was 
52 sec. 

A MEMORABLE FINISH IN THE MILE. 

The mile was distinguished for one of the most 
remarkable finishes ever seen on any track. It is not 
exaggerating a bit, indeed, to say that the race was 
barely won by an eyelash. The contest, too, was 
memorable for the great time made, the record of a 
year ago being swamped by 7 1-5 sec. The starters 


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out of an entry list of 24 were as follows: W. H. 
Langmaid, Dartmouth; H. A. Sutton, Wesleyan; J. 
O. Jarvis, Wesleyan ; C. A. Lewis, Trinity; H. L. 
Pratt, Amherst; A. G. Bugbee, Dartmouth; F. L. 
Soule, Bowdoin; E. B. Dolan, Brown; F. W. Parks, 
Worcester; B. G. Martin, Brown; F. E. Wellington, 
Worcester; E. H. Bliss, Amherst; W. E. Elder, Wil¬ 
liams ; W. D. Brownell, Brown. 

Jarvis won the race, but he had to fight for his 
laurels as he was probably never compelled to fight 
before. Langmaid started out briskly at the head of 
the heap when the gun went off, but at the end of the 
first lap he had given way to Bugbee, the order of the 
leaders at this point being Bugbee, Langmaid, Jarvis, 
and Parks, with the rest nowhere. When the third 
lap had been covered, Langmaid found that he had 
had enough of such hot work, and he dropped out of 
the race altogether. With only a quarter of a mile to 
the finish, there were practically only two in the race^ 
and these were Bugbee, who was slightly in the lead, 
and Jarvis. Down the straight the two came like a 
whirlwind. Jarvis saw the honors of a year ago 
reaching the vanishing point, and he strained every 
nerve to retain them. Bugbee ran as if his life 
depended upon the result. 

Everybody looked on at the desperate battle in 
breathless excitement. Even the lusty voices of the 
young be-deeked enthusiasts on the stands were hushed 


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into silence, and when the two struck the tape, 
apparently 


SHOULDER TO SHOULDER, 

the rival colleges sent up a yell that was deafening. 

Nearly everybody who saw the finish made up their 
minds that it was a dead heat, but the judges awarded 
first place to Jarvis, and on the instant Wesleyan 
threw bedlam loose. The time was 4 min. 32 1-5 sec. 
The Wesleyan’s time a year ago was 4 min. 39 2-5 
sec. For some time after the event the rattling finish 
was rolled like a dainty morsel under the tongues of 
every man and woman on the grounds who liked a bit 
of keen, honest sport. The first quarter was run in 
the fast time of 60 1-2 sec., and the half-mile in 2 min. 
9 sec. 


LYON SUCCEEDS IDE. 

The fortunes of the champion 220-yard hurdler of 
Dartmouth were changed by an accident. Here is the 
story: 

There were 15 entries, and of these 10 toed the 
scratch. They were disposed of in three heats. The 
first heat had this trio: A. M. Lyon, Dartmouth; H. 
E. Field, Worcester; H. C. Ide, Dartmouth. Only 
the winners of each heat were allowed to run in the 
final, but there was also a heat for the seconds, the 
winners being given a chance with the others in the 


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final. Ide, who captured the event last year in 26 
sec., ran away from Lyon and Field and cantered in 
such an easy winner that everybody at once exclaimed, 
“ Oh, it’s going to be Ide again, sure! ” He won 
handily in 26 2-5 sec. Lyon and Field made 

A PRETTY LITTLE FIGHT 

for second place, but the Worcester man had to give 
place to his Dartmouth opponent and dropped out of 
the race at the 75 yards. The second heat brought 
out this quartette: R. H. Jeffreys, Williams; B. A. 
Smalley, Dartmouth; W. H. Gage, Trinity; B. R. 
Briggs, Wesleyan. The Wesleyan man won his heat 
with comparative ease. Gage, of Trinity, fell over a 
hurdle and hopelessly ruined his chance. Jeffreys 
and Smalley made a great fight of it to the tape for 
second place, and Smalley was only beaten by a few 
inches. Briggs’s time was 28 3-5 sec. In the third 
heat the starters were: F. V. Dana, Amherst; H. H. 
Cushing, Brown; I. McD. Garfield, Williams. Cush¬ 
ing won in 27 4-5 sec., and again there was another 
corking fight for second place, Dana just beating Gar¬ 
field on the line. The three seconds, Lyon, Jeffreys, 
and Dana, then showed up to fight for a place in the 
final. Dana started off with a rush, but had n’t gone 
50 yards when he was caught up by Lyon, who finally 
won by two yards in 27 4-5 sec. 




























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A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. 

The final was exciting and full of croppers, while 
the result was altogether unexpected and a severe 
blow to the last year’s champion from Dartmouth. 
The starters were: H. C. Ide, Dartmouth; A. M. 
Lyon, Dartmouth; B. R. Briggs, Wesleyan; H. H. 
Cushing, Brown. The quartette got away prettily 
together to the pistol fire, and Ide, as usual, rushed 
off in front. To the dismay of his friends, however, 
he came to grief at his first hurdle. The champion 
was on his feet in a twinkling, though, and sped on 
after the leaders like a flash. With 20 yards more to 
go he would have won in spite of his accident. As it 
was, he rattled across the line a capital third. Lyon 
was first in 27 sec., and Cushing second. The Wes¬ 
leyan, who was running strong and well, threw a 
somersault over one of his hurdles as he rattled down 
the straight, and at the same time threw himself out 
of the race. As it happened, Dartmouth lost nothing 
by Ide’s misfortune, for while she lost one champion 
she gained another. The joy of 

THE BOYS WHO FLAUNTED THE GREEN 

knew no bounds at this additional triumph. They 
had been piling up point after point, till they were now 
comfortably at the head of the list, and they began to 
see that much coveted pennant glittering before them. 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


There were 40 entries in the 220-yard dash, and 
although 15 of these stayed away in order to fight 
some other day, there were still enough left to supply 
lots of interesting sport. They were dispatched in five 
heats, and only the winners were allowed to strip for 
the final. 

Ide, of Dartmouth, won the event a year ago in 
22 3-5 sec., and he was among those who ran yesterday. 
In the first heat there were : H. L. Twitchell, Amherst; 
J. A. Anderson, Wesleyan; C. A. Brown, Bowdoin; 
A. A. Ewing, Amherst; A. H. M. Curtis, Dartmouth. 

Before the race was run off, there occurred the only 
hitch that disturbed the harmony of the meeting. 
Through some mismanagement on the part of the 
Worcester Athletic Club, the tracks could n’t he roped 
off for the event as demanded by the rules of the asso¬ 
ciation. All the colleges, except Dartmouth, however, 
agreed that, under the circumstances, they would com¬ 
pete without any roped-up track. C. W. McKay, cap¬ 
tain of the Dartmouths, however, strenuously objected 
to this arrangement. He made a vigorous kick, 
declaring that if the race were pulled off in the man¬ 
ner suggested, it meant a start of 15 yards and a cer¬ 
tainty for the man who got the pole. The matter was 
finally placed before the referee, and he decided that 
the race should go on without the ropes. Some 15 or 
20 minutes had been cut to waste by the dispute, and 
the spectators began to show signs of impatience. 


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At last the first event was disposed of. It was won 
by Twitchell, although a mistake that he made nearly 
cost him his place. When he came to the finish for 
the 100 yards he eased up till his friends shouted to 
him to go on, and then he spurted and breasted the 
tape three yards ahead of Ewing, who was apparently 
in the race more as a coach for Twitchell than for any 
glory for himself. The winner’s time was 24 3-5 sec. 

In the second heat the starters were : A. A. Brown, 
Amherst; E. H. Weeks, Brown; F. P. Claggett, 
Dartmouth; H. S. Patterson, Williams; E. O. Grover, 
Dartmouth. Weeks won a pretty race in 24 sec. 
Claggett was second. The third heat brought out: C. 
F. Lyon, Widiams; F. W. Howe, Dartmouth; H. C. 
Ide, Dartmouth; T. V. Doherty, Bowdoin; C. A. 
Jaquith, Dartmouth. Ide, the champion, won the heat 
easdy, 24 3-5 sec. C. F. Lyon was second. • In the 
next heat there were the following competitors: B. A. 
Smalley, Dartmouth; C. W. McKay, Dartmouth: B. 
E. Eldred, Dartmouth; H. W. Goodspeed, Wesleyan ; 
A. B. P. Straight, Brown. This was a sensational 
heat. McKay, who had made such a vigorous protest 
against running the race, was given the place second 
from the pole. He started off like a shot at the signal 
and ran a magnificent race, leading ad the way. 
When within four feet of the tape, however, he tripped 
and was thrown violently to the ground, leaving Eldred 
to shoot past him and cross the line. Smalley was 


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second. Almost everybody on the stands thought that 
McKay had caught the tape, and when the truth was 
known, the little crack’s ill-fortune was bemoaned on 
every side. The winner's time was 24 1-5. 

The last of the trial heats brought out these: W. S. 
Killam, Worcester; G. A. Denny, Worcester; J. R. 
Allen, Williams; F. L. Stone, Worcester; C. R. 
Hodgdon, Amherst. Killam delighted his Worcester 
friends by shooting off with a hot lead, but the pace 
was too killing for him, and he had to give it up at 
the bend. Allen won at the tape by a yard from 
Stone, who made a very promising exhibition. The 
time was 25 1-5 sec. 

IDE THE CHAMPION STILL. 

The final between the five winners of their respect¬ 
ive heats was a pretty little struggle, but, as was gen¬ 
erally expected, it was captured by Ide, although his 
time, 23 2-5 sec., was considerably slower than when he 
won the championship a year ago. 

The mile walk, which figured next on the card, was 
funny, exciting, and noteworthy, because the record 
was smashed. The finish was also hot and sensational. 
There were 15 entries, and they all faced the starter 
in double column but N. G. Jackson of Bowdoin. 
The starters were as follows: E. L. Nye, Dartmouth; 
E. Thomas, Bowdoin; C. G. Harris, Worcester; J. F. 


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159 


Chase, Wesleyan; J. A. Ford, Dartmouth; D. D. 
Wheeler, Williams; J. M. Tilden, Worcester; H. F. 
Houghton, Amherst; H. D. Riley, Williams; A. D. 
Butterfield, Worcester; L. P. Strong, Worcester; H. 
A. Brownell, Brown; C. C. Putney, Williams; H. A. 
Dyer, Brown. 

Dyer took the lead, and when Judge Merrill had 
time to cast his glance over the crowd, he speedily 
weeded out half a dozen of the boys for running. 
Brownell of Brown showed some smart work and 
Houghton also did some remarkably fast walking. In 
the second lap Nye pushed his way into the front and 
then Dyer gave a disgraceful exhibition of fouling 
that would have warranted Mr. Merril pulling him off 
the track on the instant. Dyer was ahead of Hough¬ 
ton, and he persisted in crossing and re-crossing the 
track and putting himself in the Amherst pedestrian’s 
way in such a palpable and provoking way that the 
spectators became disgusted, and when he passed the 
grandstand he was greeted by such a storm of groans 
and hisses that Dyer became white with rage. 
Rounding the bend in the third lap, Houghton man¬ 
aged to shoot in front of his opponent, an achievement 
which was loudly applauded. In the next lap Dyer 
went half way round the track and then withdrew. 

In the last lap, Brownell, who was leading, appeared 
to have the race well in hand, with Nye second, and 
Houghton a good third. Within 200 yards of the fin- 


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ish, Mr. Merrill took Brownell off the track for run¬ 
ning. This left 

NYE AND HOUGHTON 

to fight it out, for Strong and Chase, the only other 
men on the track, were away out of sight. The fun 
began as they entered the straight. Houghton, who 
was about a couple of yards behind the Dartmouth 
ped, put on a grand spurt and reached his opponent’s 
shoulder. Nye promptly responded to the call and a 
glorious battle ensued between them. With the in¬ 
tense tension of the moment the veins on their faces 
and necks stood out like whipcords. Every inch of 
the way was bitterly contested. Inch by inch Hough¬ 
ton crept up on the Dartmouth lad, and when he 
breasted the tape and then dropped like a log, help¬ 
less, almost unconscious, into the arms of his friends, 
it was found that he had struggled in first by six 
inches. Nye was disqualified for running during the 
last 50 yards, and second place was given to Strong. 
He was 80 or 100 yards away. Chase was third. 
The time was 7 min. 19 4-5 sec. The time for the 
mile a year ago, made by W. W. Gregg, of Amherst, 
was 7 min. 20 sec. 

THE TWO-MILE RUN 

brought out a remarkably interesting lot of youngsters. 
There were 25 of them on the card and they all 



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turned out smilingly to show their paces, save 7. 
Here were the starters: H. A. Sutton, Wesleyan; J. 
O. Jarvis, Wesleyan ; W. A. Beckwith, Williams ; H. 

L. Pratt, Amherst; W. H. Cunningham, Worcester; 

F. W. Rawle, Worcester; R. C. Sanger, Brown; A. 

G. Bugbee, Dartmouth; W. H. Parker, Worcester; 

M. H. Hoyt, Dartmouth; J. A. Evans, Williams; W. 
W. Burnham, Amherst; W. D. Brownell, Brown; E. 
B. Dolan, Brown; H. A. Russell, Amherst; D. L. 
Sharpe, Brown; D. Hall, Dartmouth; W. L. Harris, 
Dartmouth. Still more record smashing! A year 
ago H. A. Russell, of Amherst, did the trick in 11 
min. 3-5 sec. Yesterday J. O. Jarvis smashed that to 
sticks, and put up one of his own—10 min. 8 2-3 sec. 
Bugbee started off in the lead, followed in close order 
by Hoyt and Cunningham. In the second lap Parker 
took a hand at leading, with Jarvis close at his heels. 
Cunningham, at this stage, dropped out. In the next 
lap, Parker yielded the lead to Sharpe and Sutton 
sprinted up to Jarvis to give his college chum some 
careful coaching. At the end of a mile Sharpe was 
still leading, with Jarvis and Parker third. Russell, 
Amherst’s champion of a year ago, was away hope¬ 
lessly in the rear, at the tail end of the procession. 
The bitter fight really came, as usual, in the last lap. 
Jarvis challenged the leader, and then the two went 
at it as if grim death were at their heels. Wesleyan 
cheered, Brown yelled, and the two lads fled down the 

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stretch. It was a magnificent fight to the line. Jar¬ 
vis won, but he heat his man literally in the last six 
inches. Parker, of Worcester, was third, 10 or a 
dozen yards away. The time was 10 min. 8 2-3 sec. 

The field events were also begun promptly at 2 
o’clock, and at that time the pole vaulters assembled 
in front of the grandstand and began their annual con¬ 
test for supremacy. This contest, like the one of last 
year, was at first supposed to be a fight between 
Towne, of Williams, Ewing, of Amherst, and Derby, 
of Worcester, but several new men showed up and 
upset all calculations. Derby, of Worcester, and 
Smith, of Wesleyan, both vaulted 4 in. higher than 
ever before, and with Dunning, of Amherst, were all 
tied for second place. It was finally decided by the 
toss of a coin; each college took 1 1-4 points as its 
share of second and third places. The prizes were 
drawn by lot, and Derby took the silver trophy, and 
Dunning the bronze one. Dunning, of Amherst, took 
third medal, while Smith, of Wesleyan, by an unlucky 
chance did not get a place. The following is a com¬ 
plete score of the event as showed by the official 
scorer: 


H. L. Towne, 

Williams, 

10 ft. 6 in. 

J. A. Downe, 

Worcester, 

10 ft. 4 in. 

M. D. Dunning, 

Amherst, 

10 ft. 4 in. 

E. O. Smith, 

Wesleyan, 

10 ft. 4 in. 

A. A. Ewing, 

Amherst, 

10 ft. 

R. H. Baker, 

Dartmouth, 

9 ft. 8 in. 

A. B. Hotchkins, 

Vermont, 

9 ft. 6 in. 


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PUTTING SIXTEEN-POUND SHOT. 

This event was uninteresting, with no one to contest 
for Worcester but Bingham. In the shot put, S. Car¬ 
ter, of Trinity, came very near breaking the record 
and won first place. In an exhibition put he made a 
record of 37 ft. 11 1-2 in., and but for a foul would 
have broken the record in another put. The follow¬ 
ing was the complete score of the event: 


S. Carter, 

Trinity, 

37 ft. 6 in. 

F. H. Brigham, 

Worcester, 

36 ft. 5 in. 

F. E. Smith, 

Brown, 

35 ft. 4i/4 in. 

E. N. Robinson, 

Brown, 

34 ft. IOV 4 in. 

A. B. Wilson, 

Dartmouth, 

33 ft. 7 in. 

E. B. Singer, 

Wesleyan, 

33 ft. 7 in. 

G. L. Kimball, 

Bowdoin, 

33 ft. 41/2 in. 

F. D. Edgell, 

Amherst, 

33 ft. 41/2 in. 

F. E. Mason, 

Dartmouth, 

32 ft. 8 in. 

J. F. Bates, 

Bowdoin, 

31 ft. IOV 4 in. 

H. W. Leland, 

Worcester, 

31 ft. 114 in. 

RUNNING HIGH JUMP. 


The running high jump showed only 

ordinary per- 

formances. The 

record of the events was as follows : 

S. A. McComber, 

Brown, 

5 ft, 41/4 in. 

A. C. Lewis, 

Dartmouth, 

5 ft. 31/4 in. 

H. W. B. Arnold, 

Brown, 

5 ft. 21/2 in. 

J. A. Anderson, 

Wesleyan, 

5 ft. 1/2 in. 


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THROWING SIXTEEN-POUND HAMMER. 


Ellis, the last year’s champion, retained his cham¬ 
pionship, and also broke the record in the event. The 
score: 


G. S. Ellis, 


Brown, 

98 ft. 3V2 in. 

S. Carter, 


Trinity, 

92 ft. 4 in. 

F. Cutts, 


Wesleyan, 

91 ft. 5 in. 

F. H. Brigham, 


Worcester, 

87 ft. 10 in. 

F. E. Smith, 


Brown, 

87 ft. 3 in. 

G. V. Kimball, 


Bowdoin, 

82 ft. 9 in. 

E. H. Carleton, 


Bowdoin, 

79 ft. 11 in. 

E. M. Bowles, 


Dartmouth, 

78 ft. 7 in. 

A. B. Wilson, 


Dartmouth, 

70 ft. 6 in. 

E. B. Singer, 


Wesleyan, 

67 ft, 3 in. 


RUNNING 

BROAD JUMP. 

Welton was 

another 

man who 

retained his chain- 

pionship, and 

came very near breaking the record. 

His winning jump was within half 

an inch of Potter’s 

record. The records of 

the various men in this event 

were: 




B. F. Welton, 


Dartmouth, 

21 ft. 1 in. 

S. K. Me Comber, 


Brown, 

19 ft, 11% in. 

S. Chase, 


Dartmouth, 

19 ft, 5 in. 

A. C. Lewis, 


Dartmouth, 

19 ft, 3V 2 in. 

A. M. Jones, 


Bowdoin, 

19 ft. 9 in. 

E. O. Smith, 


Wesleyan, 

17 ft. 1 in. 

J. S. French, 


Bowdoin, 

19 ft. 

H. W. B. Arnold, 


Brown, 

18 ft. 5 in. 

F. H. Brigham, 


Worcester, 

18 ft. y 2 in. 


















































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WHERE THE POINTS WENT. 

The following table shows where the points went in 
the various events, and how the championship was won : 


Event. 

Amherst. 

Brown. 

Dartmouth. 

Trinity. 

Wesleyan. 

Williams. 

Worcester. 

100-yards dash. 

0 

1 

3 

0 

0 

5 

0 

Half-mile run. 

5 

0 

l 

0 

0 

0 

3 

120-yard hurdle. 

1 

0 

5 

0 

3 

0 

0 

440-yard dash. 

3 

0 

5 

0 

1 

0 

0 

Mile run... 

1 

0 

3 

0 

5 

0 

0 

Two-mile bicycle. 

8 

0 

0 

0 

0 

1 

0 

220-vard hurdle. 

0 

3 

6 

0 

0 

0 

0 

220-yard dash. 

0 

1 

8 

0 

0 

0 

0 

Mile walk. 

5 

0 

0 

0 

5 

0 

3 

Two-mile run. 

0 

3 

0 

0 

1 

0 

1 

Pole vault.. 

lVs 

0 

0 

0 

lVs 

5 

lVs 

Putting 16-lb. shot. 

0 

1 

0 

5 

0 

0 

3 

Running high jump... 

0 

6 

3 

0 

0 

0 

0 

Throwing 16-lb. h’r_ 

0 

5 

0 

3 

1 

0 

0 

Running broad jump.. 

0 

3 

6 

0 

0 

0 

0 

Totals. 

1 

241/3 

23 

40 

8 

171/s 

11 

H Vs 


With the advent of the new era in Dartmouth’s his¬ 
tory athletics seem to be given new inspiration. The 
alumni and faculty are cooperating heartily with the 
students and everything augurs most auspiciously for 
the future. W. M. Ames will have charge of the track 
and field athletics during the year and Dwight Hall 
will be captain for a second term. 





























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TWENTY-FIFTH FIELD MEETING. 

As soon as the Alumni Athletic Field had been 
officially transferred to the care of the general athletic 
committee, Wednesday afternoon, October 4, the events 
of the annual fall meet were begun. Officers : Prof. 
G. D. Lord, judge; A. J. Ranney, starter; N. A. 
Frost, Thornburg ’95, and Webster ’95, timers; Bur¬ 
roughs ’94, scorer; Harris, marshal. The hundred- 
yards dash came first, as usual, and three trial heats 
were run, each in 10 3-5 seconds. West ’95 and 
Jacquith ’96, in the first heat, Hayes ’95 and Eldred 
’96, in the second, Claggett ’94 and Rollins ’97, in the 
third, secured first and second places, and were thereby 
entitled to run in the final heat which was put down 
for Thursday morning. Throwing the base-ball was 
next on the list, and was won, after a prolonged con¬ 
test, by F. L. Smalley ’94, with Hayes ’95 and Hotch¬ 
kiss ’97, a close second and third, respectively; 322 
feet was the distance at which the event was w T on. 
Bugbee ’95 had everything his own way in the half- 
mile, and won in 2 min. 8 3-5 sec. The main interest 
in this race centered in the contest for second and 
third places between Lovejoy ’94, Parker ’94, and 
Langmaid ’95. The last named finally came in ahead, 
and Parker was given third. A new event for a Dart¬ 
mouth athletic meeting, and one made possible only 
by the new running track, was the one-mile bicycle 


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167 


race. It was certainly the most interesting contest of 
the afternoon’s track events, the outcome being in 
doubt until near the end. Lane ’95 rode a very skil¬ 
ful race and won. He was followed by Gilman, D. 
M. C., and Lull ’97, in the order named. Those who 
witnessed this race could have no doubt concerning 
the possibilities of future bicycling at Dartmouth. 
The 440-yards dash was another procession, Claggett 
’94 having a long lead at the finish. F. L. Smalley 
’94 and Lyon ’94 were his closest competitors, winning 
second and third, respectively. Claggett was the only 
man to break a record during the afternoon, his time 
for this dash being 52 sec.,—1-5 sec. better than the 
previous Dartmouth record. In the mile-walk there 
was scarcely a doubt from the beginning that Nye ’96 
would win. His time was 8 min. 48 1-2 sec. The 
other successful contestants were Grover ’94 and Pills- 
bury ’95. 

The knapsack race brought out three pairs of ’94 
men. Bowers and Ames met with a little discomotion. 
Cassin and Townsend won with the Smalley brothers 
second. 

The first event Thursday was the obstacle race. 
J. W. H. Pollard ’95 proved to be most expert at the 
various tricks and came in ahead. Cassin ’94 was 
second and Newell ’95 third. Everybody thought 
Claggett would win the final 100-yards dash but he was 
too badly handicapped, and besides, he got wedged in 


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behind West near the finish and could not pass. 
Hayes ’95 won the event in good form in 10 1-2 sec.; 
West ’95, second; Eldred, third. Chase ’96 won great 
praise at Worcester in the 120-hurdle race, and was 
therefore handicapped considerably, but he overcame it 
easily and won in 17 1-5 sec., breaking the college 
record. Lyon ’94 and Smalley ’94 came in after him 
in the order named. For the two years previous Hall 
and Claggett had won the three-legged race, and every¬ 
body watched with interest their feat this year. At 
the sound of the pistol they, were off with their peculiar 
lope and it was evident they had not lost the knack. 
They finished ahead easily with West and Austin 
second and Chase and Eldred third. The shot putters 
ended their efforts with Wight ’95 first, Wilson ’95 
second, and Marshall ’97 third. The preliminaries in 
the 220-yards dash gave these men a chance at the 
finals: Austin ’95, F. L. Smalley ’94, Curtis ’94, Clag¬ 
gett ’94, Eldred ’96, and Jacquith ’96. The final heat 
was a beautiful race. Claggett, with his magnificent 
stride, was ahead. Jacquith and Eldred followed. 
Time 23 1-4 sec., equaling the record. The two-mile 
run was an interesting race between Bugbee ’95 and 
Hall ’95 in which the former won in 11 min. 11 2-5 
sec.; Parker ’94, third. Tabor kicked the foot-ball 151 
feet which was better than Stone and Burnap could do, 
they taking second and third points. The running high 
jump was contested a long time. Lewis ’94, who was 


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169 


a scratch man, jumped the highest, 5 ft. 4 in., but Chase 
’96 had one inch handicap and cleared 5 ft. 3 in. 
Lewis was given the medal. This is the best jump 
Lewis ever made, which augurs well for his training. 
Smith ’97 was third. The mile-run is the event in 
which Bugbee has made himself famous, but he was so 
exhausted from the two-mile race that Hall ’94 beat 
him at his own event. Langmaid ’95 was third. The 
pole vault brought out a new man in Smith ’97 who 
promises well. He cleared 8 ft. 5 in., Lewis ’94 was 
second, Hoyt ’95 third. The 220-yards hurdle was run 
in one heat,—Lyon ’94, B. A. Smalley ’94, and Hack 
’95 came in, in the order named. Gilman, D. M. C., 
won the two-mile bicycle race at 7 min. 17 sec., Lane 
’95, second; Lull ’97, third. The hammer throw was 
decided by handicaps. Hack ’95 (18 ft.) won ; Cassin 
’94 (15 ft.), second; Lewis ’97 (12 ft.), third. Records 
were lowered in the base running. Claggett made the 
circuit in 14 3-4 sec., Welton in 15 1-5, Hayes 15 2-5, 
the last being the same as the record. The flag race 
was a pretty contest. Ninety-four would have won 
easily if the flag had not been dropped between Smalley 
and Claggett. As it was they were second with ’96 
first, and ’95 third; ’97 did not enter. The running 
broad jump found Chase ’96 a winner, with Lewis ’94, 
second; Lyon ’94 third. Ninety-five’s ball team de¬ 
feated the D. M. C. nine in the afternoon, thus win¬ 
ning the class championship. The class of ’94 won 


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the class athletic championship with 89 points, to 62 
for ’95. This gives ’94 the proud distinction of being 
first in the athletic contests for three successive years, 
an unprecedented record. 








W. G. Eaton ’75. 













BOATING. 


J F an attempt were made to sketch the history of 
boating at Dartmouth, it would begin somewhat 
like that of Yale, where it is said that far back in 
Indian times, a decade or so after the college was 
founded, three students started Yale’s boating celebrity 
by going out in a canoe on Sunday, in defiance of the 
“ blue laws,” and there paid the penalty of their impiety 
by at once upsetting. 

The canoe had been the only water-craft used by 
Dartmouth students previous to 1872, and numerous 
upsets happened, some fully as disastrous as that of 
those freshmen of Yale now a century departed. The 
Dartmouth boys had no other, and they became very 
skilful in the management of the little vessels. Two 
men, sitting flat on the bottom, each using a broad- 
bladed paddle six feet long, sent one of them ahead 
with surprising rapidity. 

The canoes were very popular, because they could 
run without danger close to the shore, into little inlets 
and among floating logs, where the passage of heavier 
boats with sweeping oars would be impossible. Some¬ 
times two students took one of them, and, putting in 
guns and blankets, paddled up to the lakes of the Con¬ 
necticut many miles above, stopping nights at farm 


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houses on the banks or sleeping in the grass, and after 
a week or so returned, laden with duck, snipe, wood¬ 
cock, and innumerable squirrels. 

When the triumphs of her sister colleges on the 
waters stirred the soul of Dartmouth to emulation, she 
had not a single boating man in college. 

For a comprehensive sketch of Dartmouth’s career in 
intercollegiate boating, Dr. W. G. Eaton ’75 contributed 
the following for this work : 

“ A history of Dartmouth Athletics would certainly 
be incomplete without some account of the boating 
interest that was aroused in the college in ’72, and of 
the so-called Giants who represented her in ’73 at 
Springfield and in ’74 and ’75 at Saratoga. At this 
time it is difficult to recall in what way the movement 
started. There seemed to be a spontaneity, not due to 
any one man or set of men in the college, which created 
an immense enthusiasm at the outset and continued 
during the writer’s stay at Hanover. 

“The boating craze began in the late fall of ’72, when 
a meeting of the undergraduates was called in the old 
chapel, and the feasibility of having a representative 
crew sent to Springfield in ’73 was first discussed. The 
men of ’73 who took an active interest were Lawrence, 
Underhill, Paul, and others. After several meetings 
had been held, in which the matter was thoroughly 
discussed, it was decided that the plan was not only 
practicable but would be of great benefit to the college 


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in an athletic way, as well as in others unnecessary to 
mention. 

“ Subscription committees were appointed in each class, 
for the purpose of ascertaining whether sufficient money 
could be raised among the students and faculty to cover 
the expense of building a boat-house, engaging a pro¬ 
fessional trainer, purchasing boats, and other things. 
We did not at that time look to the alumni for aid, for 
it was thought best to rely entirely upon ourselves, and 
then, if necessary after the way was clear, to call upon 
them. The poor student, working his way through 
college, as well as the rich man’s son, gave what he could 
spare to further the cause, and it was due to this very 
thing that the enthusiasm was kept up throughout the 
winter and spring, and finally the conclusion was reached 
that enough had been pledged to justify the committee 
in building a boathouse, engaging a trainer, and con¬ 
tracting with Elliot of Greenpoint, L. I., to build a six- 
oared cedar shell with oars and other appurtenances. 

“ In these days of fine gymnasiums and boat-houses 
costing many thousands of dollars, it would cause some 
amusement to see the plain, unpainted boat-house of 
’73. It was built a little above the old covered bridge, 
on the only level ground on the bank of the river, per¬ 
fectly plain inside, with a few rough rests for the boats 
and frames for the twelve-foot oars, and with a dress¬ 
ing-room for the crew partitioned off at one end. 

“ Imagine one’s dressing and undressing in such a 


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place in the cold days of March and April; stripping 
down to knee pants and sleeveless gauze undershirts ; 
trudging down to the float with the boat and shivering 
until settled down to work. The crews of those days 
were not furnished with sweaters with which to keep 
off the cold before rowing and to ward off a chill at 
the end of a long pull. A large float was fastened to 
the bank, not built very thoroughly, or sufficiently strong 
to support many persons at a time, for oftentimes the 
crew were obliged to stand in the water to put the shell 
into the river. The men were either very tough or else 
enthusiasm served to keep them warm, for the writer 
does not remember that any were ever laid up with 
sickness, or even with a cold. 

“The old professional champion, John Biglin, was 
engaged to select and train the crew which it was 
fondly hoped would carry the 4 green ’ to the front at 
Springfield. Biglin was as hard as iron and as tough 
as a man could be, never tiring and probably never real¬ 
izing that the big six-footers, whom he selected, could 
not endure as much as he himself could. His choice 
resulted in the selection of Eaton, Ward, Archibald, 
and Gates of ’74 ; Underhill and Paul of ’73. These 
six men were mighty in bone and muscle, endurance 
and courage, but wholly inexperienced in shell rowing; 
powerful enough to outpull any other crew in the 
country when mere strength was considered, but totally 
lacking in skill and the science of rowing. They did 


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not need any exercise to reduce flesh, not having more 
than was absolutely necessary for healthy men, and yet 
they were put through such a course of training outside 
the boat, that it was a wonder that even they, tough as 
they were, endured it. From all accounts there were 
some pretty hot times between crew and trainer, caused 
by the excessive work the men were made to perform ; 
but they kept at it for the sake of the college, and each 
man did faithful work in his place. Such constant, 
persistent effort had its reward, for Dartmouth crossed 
the line fourth, out of a field of nine contestants. It was 
said of this crew that they started last, owing to slow¬ 
ness in getting away, but after being warmed up and 
in good working order pulled through the field in good 
style and were perfectly able to continue another mile 
at the same pace. 

“ Work for the ensuing year was not begun until the 
winter of ’73. Rowing weights had been put into one 
of the bowling alleys, and their use, together with that 
of dumb-bells and clubs, constituted the daily work for 
the new crew. Eaton, Ward, Archibald, and Gates 
still remained in college, but the three former had 
decided not to contest for places in the ’74 boat. 
However, plenty of good men remained. Two or 
three crews were set to work on the weights and every 
afternoon the rowing alley was in full operation. To 
remember the names of all the candidates for boating 
honors is difficult, but those of a few present them- 





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selves to mind. Of ’75 there were Sears, Hutchinson, 
McGregor, Prouty, Westgate (Scientific), and the 
writer; of ’76, Foster, Stimpson, Frost, Ryder, and 
Mitchell (Scientific) ; of ’77, the two Wallace boys, 
Eager, Robinson, and Stevens (Scientific). After ex¬ 
perimenting for several weeks, the following men were 
selected to represent the college at Saratoga: Eaton 
’75, bow; Westgate ’75, 2; Robinson ’77, 3 ; Mitchell 
’76, 4; Eager ’77, 5; Gates ’74, stroke. No substi¬ 
tute was provided, a thing which might have proven 
extremely unfortunate had any of the crew been sick 
or indisposed, but we were a tough lot and no sub¬ 
stitute was needed. With but few drawbacks we kept 
steadily at work, taking two long pulls each day ex¬ 
cepting Sundays, and doing considerable walking and 
running. We also had our training table, and all were 
required to use a bottle or two of Bass’s ale every day. 

“ The crew spent some time at Enfield, in order to 
practice on still water, on which the race would be 
rowed at Saratoga; and there we devoted most of the 
time to strict training and rowing, and accomplished 
good work. At last we started for Saratoga, not 
travelling in a special car containing boats and other 
trappings, hut each man looking out for himself, the 
boat being strapped outside on top of the car. The 
only incident of the trip worth mentioning was that 
the boat caught fire from sparks from the engine, and 
a large hole was burned in the bottom. Fortunately, 






































































































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it was the old practice shell, and the new one was 
ready for use at Saratoga. 

“ The crew had quarters on the west shore of the lake 
at John Riley’s, on a bill overlooking the whole expanse 
of water, where we had plenty of fresh air and good, 
wholesome food. The work of each day was about as 
follows: Up at about 5:30 or 6; an easy stroll for 
two or three miles, returning for breakfast, after which 
a short rest; then a walk and run of six or eight 
miles, taking every hill at top speed to strengthen the 
wind; back to the boat-house for a pull of about eight 
miles; home for rest and dinner; in the afternoon 
another tramp of the same distance, then another row 
on the course; after supper an easy walk before retir¬ 
ing. We had very few visitors and the life was of 
the routine variety, mostly work and very little play. 
Dartmouth’s crew was one of the strongest, and proba¬ 
bly the largest, on the lake. Gates and Mitchell were 
often remarked to be the two men most nearly perfect 
for rowing in any of the crews. We rowed a stroke 
of between forty-two and forty-eight during all our 
training, and it was a source of wonder to experienced 
boating men that the crew was able to keep up so fast 
a pace with so unscientific a stroke; but we pulled the 
race through to the end and finished fourth, Columbia 
winning, and Wesleyan and Harvard second and third 
respectively. 

“ This was the race in which Yale and Harvard 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


fouled, the former being obliged to withdraw with a 
broken rudder. It was in this race also that Cornell 
claimed to have crossed the line ahead of Dartmouth, 
but affidavits, in the writer’s possession, from W. F. 
Flagg, signal officer, Lieut. A. R. McNair, U. S. N., 
L. H. Cramer, civil engineer of Saratoga Rowing 
Association, and Charles H. Teft, signal officer, show 
that Dartmouth was fourth beyond a doubt. 

“ On Oct. 26, ’74, occurred the only class regatta ever 
held at Hanover. The start was three miles up river, 
about up to the second island. Three races took 
place, the first between ’75 and ’76, won by ’75; the 
second between ’77 and ’78, won by ’77. The final 
race between ’75 and ’77 was won by ’77. The cham¬ 
pion colors, consisting of an American flag and a Dart¬ 
mouth green one, were presented to the winning crew 
by S. B. Wiggin ’75, president of the boat club. Stu¬ 
dents in college at that time will remember the enthu¬ 
siasm over these races, the whole college, faculty, and 
most of the townspeople turning out to see them. 
The ’77 crew were taken to the village in Beebe’s 
coach, which was decorated with the class colors, and 
’77 spent the rest of the day in celebrating the victory. 
The following were the crews of the four classes: 

“ ’75,—Eaton, bow; Smith, 2 ; Parkinson, 3 ; West- 
gate, 4 ; Hutchinson, 5 ; Sears, stroke. 

“’76,—Stimpson, bow; Marshall, 2; Mitchell, 3; 
Foster, 4 ; Frost, 5 ; Ryder, stroke. 


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“’77,—Robinson, bow; Campbell, 2; Wallace, 3; 
Stevens, 4; Thombs, 5; Eager, stroke. 

“’78,—Paul, bow; White, 2; Gerould, 3; Johnson, 
4; Gregg, 5 ; Dike, stroke. 

“ During the winter the following men were chosen to 
represent the college again at Saratoga: Eaton ’75, 
bow; S. Wallace ’77, 2; Robinson ’77, 3; Frost ’76, 
4; Mitchell’76, 5 ; Eager ’77, stroke. Stevens ’77 
(Scientific), substitute. Through the kindness of Mr. 
Cohen, father of Cohen ’78, two of the crew were 
selected to go to New York to learn an improved 
stroke, of which the crew was sadly in need, as the old 
steam-engine stroke of forty-eight was not to be 
allowed. Eager and Mitchell were the men sent for 
that purpose, and George Englehardt, a professional 
sculler, was engaged to teach the new method. 

“In the early spring of ’75, in order to interest the 
alumni, and obtain needed funds for the crew, E. C. 
Carrigan ’77 was commissioned to visit the large cities 
and towns and present the situation to all interested in 
the athletic welfare of the college. In this work he 
was highly successful, and brought back encouragement 
and good financial support, so that the crew was still 
more determined to do credit to Dartmouth and her 
alumni who had been so generous. 

“Apparently the students were more interested in the 
’75 crew than in either of the others. It was hoped 
and confidently expected that this crew would finish 


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better than the ’74 crew, who, although strong and 
plucky, were handicapped by their short and rapid 
stroke. The new stroke was a quick catch of the 
water, a strong pull clear through to just a little 
beyond the perpendicular, and a slow recovery thirty- 
two to thirty-four, certainly a better and more scienti¬ 
fic method of rowing. 

“ The college will remember the two new men on the 
crew—‘Reckless’ Frost ’76, a tall, strapping man of 
6 ft. 1 3-4 in., and Sumner Wallace ’77, one of the 
best men of all the crews. He was very strong ; the 
muscles of his chestj abdomen, and back were beauti¬ 
fully developed, and to see him stripped ready for 
work was a fine sight. In the writer’s opinion, 
Mitchell, Wallace, and Gates were the three best boat¬ 
ing men that Dartmouth had. 

“After the crew had become well accustomed to the 
new stroke and to each other, through the kindness of 
Walter Aiken and other citizens of Franklin, it was 
sent to Webster lake in that town to spend a few 
weeks in practice. There we had the services of 
Englehardt, who came on from New York to give the 
crew more instruction in his method. While there the 
correspondents of several newspapers watched the 
work of the crew and sent to their papers favorable 
accounts of the way in which the shell travelled 
through the water. All the crew will remember how 
we longed to get hold of one correspondent, who was 


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far from complimentary in his criticism of the rowing; 
hut as he had left town before we saw his article, we 
were obliged to forego obtaining any satisfaction from 
him. While at Franklin a picked crew was sent down 
from Hanover to row against us, in order to give the 
townspeople some idea of a boat race. Of course we 
won after conceding several boat-lengths to the picked 
crew. 

“ Early in July the crew went to Saratoga and put 
up at Riley’s, as in ’74. The excessive road training 
that year was dispensed with, and more time was spent 
in the boat, in starting and in long pulls. Many com¬ 
pliments were paid this crew for their fine rowing. 
The new shell from Elliot, of Greenpoint, L. I., was 
one of the best on the lake, and with the crew in fine 
condition and so well boated, our hopes of bettering 
our old position at the finish were bright. 

u During training our pleasures were few. It was 
considered a great treat to rest and read, or watch 
the other crews as they went out for practice, all the 
time speculating whether we should make as good a 
showing as a few of our sister colleges. We even 
hoped to make as good time as Yale, with her compar¬ 
atively new English stroke, with the famous Cook to 
lead her; and, indeed, our hopes were realized, for 
Dartmouth finished ahead of Yale in a square race 
without accident. Walks into Saratoga, a distance of 
four miles, were occasionally taken, but we were not 


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allowed to drink the spring water for obvious reasons. 
The race was rowed in extremely rough water, due 
to the high wind blowing down the lake, so that to 
row three miles without ‘ catching a crab ’ was quite 
a successful feat. Thirteen crews took part, and as all 
had the same chance, we did not complain. We had 
never practised in such rough water, and to start a 
race under such conditions was poor judgment. Each 
crew had its course marked out by colored flags, 
placed an eighth of a mile apart, so that there could he 
no danger of fouling unless through extreme careless¬ 
ness of the how oarsman, who steered by means of his 
feet fastened into a slide. However, the race was 
rowed, and Dartmouth again crossed the line in fourth 
place, five seconds behind Harvard, and one second 
ahead of Wesleyan, which was in front of the great 
Yale crew. Cornell was first, with Columbia, the 
winner of ’74, second. 

“ Such is the history of boating at Dartmouth, so far 
as the writer is acquainted with it. The college has 
sent out no crew since ’75. Members of the different 
crews representing Dartmouth have reason to be proud 
of the position she took in all the regattas. To have 
held Harvard to within five seconds, and to have 
beaten Yale with Cook as stroke, is a fair cause for 
congratulation. 

“ The writer looks back upon his boating experience 
with very great pleasure, for although the duties were 


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severe and exceedingly irksome at times, the effects of 
wholesome exercise and the thorough training neces¬ 
sary for a long race are still enjoyed in sound, vigorous 
health. In his possession is a large volume filled with 
newspaper clippings from all the large papers, giving 
interesting incidents connected with the great boating 
contests of ’74 and ’75. It is now more than eighteen 
years since the last race, but to read these articles 
takes one back very vividly to the old days at Han¬ 
over, and almost makes one wish to be a student 
again, that he might still indulge his love for athletic 
sports.” 

The New York Tribune , dated June 27, 1873, gives 
the following description of the “ raw beef and bloody 
hone giants ” who were selected by Biglin for the first 
crew: 44 Mr. Eaton, the bow, comes from Grinnell, 
Iowa, and is twenty-three years old. He is about 5 
ft. 11 in. high, brown, bony, and possesses a constitu¬ 
tion capable of great endurance. He has been in the 
habit of farming and doing other out-door work since his 
boyhood. His back and shoulders are peculiarly angu¬ 
lar and corded, and his muscles, which are naturally 
large, are hard and firm. Mr. Eaton possesses a great 
reputation for strength in college, and is known as the 
man who 4 tuckered out ’ three crews in one day, which 
he actually did on one occasion. In any other crew he 
would be notable as a man of large size. 

44 Mr. Ward, No. 2, comes from Westminster, Vt., 


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and is twenty-five years of age. He stands just under 
6 ft.; is large and muscular. His youth has been 
passed in the out-door industry and exercise of a coun¬ 
try boy, and he has the size and power of a veritable 
‘Green Mountain boy.’ Like Mr. Eaton, he would 
elsewhere attract attention as a man of great size, but 
in his crew he is next to the smallest man. 

“ Mr. Archibald, No. 3, is one of the men who will 
make this crew memorable in the annals of boating, 
whatever the result of the race may be. He is 6 ft. 2 
in. in height, and though a man spare and muscular in 
form, weighs after some weeks of severe work 175 
pounds. He comes from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and 
has rowed in the college boat but two weeks, not being 
one of those who trained in the gymnasium all winter. 
He will lose but few pounds, however, before the race, 
as he is like most of these men, in perfect natural 
training, with hard muscles and high, steady color. 
This he owes to farm-work, simple habits, and healthy, 
regular, out-door life. 

“ Mr. C. O. Gates, who pulls No. 4 in this crew, is 
probably one of the finest looking men that ever sat in 
an American boat. Simmons, of Harvard, was the 
chief ornament of our international crew, and was con¬ 
sidered as having the finest physique among the eight 
American and English who rowed there; but, placed 
beside this northern son of Anak, he would look like a 
small man. Six ft. 2, is Mr. Gates’s height, and his 













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185 


weight is over 180 pounds—probably over 185, though 
Biglin says he will not weigh over 175 in the race. It 
remains to be added that he is a ball-player, and more 
than this, a catcher on the college nine, a place for 
which activity is the first requisite. He is only twenty 
years of age and has not been training with the crew 
this winter, but his condition is excellent and his natural 
development and firmness of muscle are unsurpassed. 
This he owes somewhat to his base-ball playing, but more 
to the first of advantages, the habit of steady out-door 
work in early life. He is tawny, dark, and fine-look¬ 
ing. When he has trained off a little flesh and learned 
to recover more uniformly, he will be more acceptable 
in the eye of the boating critic. 

“ Mr. Underhill, No. 5, is another man whom it would 
be difficult to match. His great merit is his activity, 
the rarest of qualifications in a man who stands but one 
inch under 6 ft. and tips the scales at 170 pounds. He 
is a fine base-ball player, by far the best shot in the 
college, and an indefatigable tramper and hunter. He 
is a matured man of twenty-three, and lias done a good 
deal of work in his life, supplemented by his habits of 
incessant exercise in college and work in the gymnasium 
and on the river since the crews began to train. 

“ There remains to be described another man, the most 
remarkable, in some respects, of all. This is the stroke, 
Mr. Paul. 

“He will certainly remind the casual observer of 



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Abraham Lincoln in his appearance, and in the charac¬ 
ter of his build and strength. He is a man 6 ft. 2 in. 
high and lank as a greyhound, but he has a deep chest 
and broad back. His muscles are small, but they are 
hard and tough. They are small for a man of his size 
and power. If he were furnished with the usual kind 
of muscle, he would not fall below 200 pounds weight, 
and as it is, with this singular closeness of fibre, he 
weighs 178 pounds, and will race at 170 pounds at the 
very lowest estimate. The starting sinews of his broad 
back and the long reach of his muscular arms give the 
impression, as seen from behind, of almost unlimited 
power. Mr. Paul is a senior of twenty-two years, one 
of the most respected men in college, and the best 
mathematician in his class. 

“Mr. Rider is the appropriate first substitute of this 
crew, standing 6 ft. 2 in. in his stockings and rejoicing 
in the possession of a 15-inch biceps muscle.” 

The Dartmouth crew was, of those entered at Spring- 
field, among the most conspicuous. At Yale it was 
privately said that the race would be between Dart¬ 
mouth and Harvard, with a mental reservation, it is to 
be presumed, that Yale would easily beat both, provided 
the English stroke could be thoroughly mastered before 
the time appointed. At Amherst they were indignant 
because Dartmouth had snatched away from them John 
Biglin, who had trained their crew the previous year, 
by offers of the handsome reward of one hundred dol- 


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lars a week for twelve weeks and because Dartmouth 
was spending money by the thousands in her prepara¬ 
tion for the struggle. Rumors of every kind, as to the 
prowess of the Dartmouth boys and their preparation, 
had been floating about, unaccompanied by any definite 
facts. 

In 1874 the course was transferred to Saratoga lake 
which was decidedly superior to the course at Spring- 
field. At the starting point it was over a mile in width 
and perfectly straight to the finish, where it narrowed 
down to about thirteen hundred feet. There was no 
shallow water, no currents or sand-bars, as at Spring- 
field. Near the finish the banks were high and afforded 
a fine view of the length of the course. 

The intense college enthusiasm and earnest rivalry 
which characterized those races is brought out in the 
following description of the regatta at Saratoga in 1874? 
as taken from The Anvil , a Dartmouth publication of 
that time: 


REGATTA AT SARATOGA. 

“It was 5 : 30 before the first crew (Cornell), put in an 
appearance, and it was 6: 6 before the 4 Ready—go ! ’ 
was given. At that moment everybody on either shore, 
with attenuated necks, bated breaths, and strained eyes, 
sought the 4 upper stakes,’ for the greatest, most mag¬ 
nificent race in the annals of American boating had 
commenced. At the first, Harvard and Bowdoin struck 


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ahead. Yale was hardly behind, and really there was 
no perceptible difference in the crews, except Trinity 
and Williams, who, in order to be consistent,—for they 
were last to get into position—concluded to be drivers 
instead of leaders in this chase. On they came, down 
the river, in magnificent array, Harvard leading as they 
passed the first half-mile station, with Wesleyan almost 
neck-and-neck; close to Wesleyan, and hardly behind, 
came Yale; while our own Dartmouth had the seventh 
or eighth position. The bulletin boards at the telegraph 
station erroneously gave Dartmouth the second posi¬ 
tion, and this report has been incorporated into nearly 
all the newspapers. We happened to have a good 
position, and had our eye fixed upon the ‘ green caps ’ 
from the first. The Dartmouth crew were unfortunate 
at the very start, No. 4 being unprepared, and almost 
immediately afterward No. 5 slipping the button of his 
oar behind the rowlock, not to get control of the oar 
again for nearly twenty strokes. But they were mak¬ 
ing good time, and continued to do so until the end, as 
the result of the races will show. As we were standing 
by the west side, watching the race, we were startled by 
an uproar. Upon looking up, we saw two ‘ pussons ’ of 
the ebony persuasion, gorgeously arrayed in magenta, 
making the best possible time down the road, gesticula¬ 
ting wildly and shouting, ‘ The Harwoods are ahead ! 
The Harwoods are ahead ! ’ 

“At the music stand was the terminus of the tele- 


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graph line, and here was gathered a crowd of those 
loving music and a shelter from the rain. The posi¬ 
tion commanded the view way beyond the bend to the 
little starting boats. 

“At the pistol-shot the tiptoeing crowd watched the 
little specks that through the glasses even looked like 
semi-animated centipedes. The trust in the veracity 
of the telegraph operators was childlike. As the huge 

‘ H-d ’ hung heading the list of the positions at 

the end of the first half mile, the wearers of the ma¬ 
genta atoned for their proper silence during the Fresh¬ 
man race and crowed right lustily. The horrid impo¬ 
sition that ‘ Dartmouth was second,’ the few green 
ribbons joyously believed, and made the best noise 
their few throats were able. Then the Yalensians 
cheered their crew as third. When at the second half 

mile ‘ H-d ’ was telegraphed as again leading, the 

magentas made ample atonement for the dreadful 
silence that was so soon to be theirs. What was the 
sensation of the Dartmouth boys, as their crew was 
not named in the first half dozen, may be imagined. 
Thoughts of broken oars, fouls, sand-bars, and dis¬ 
abled men shot through their minds, and disgust with 
boat racing was the marked feature of their physiog¬ 
nomies. 

“It seemed an hour before the boats came sweeping 
round the bend and the crews could be distinctly seen 
hugging the eastern shore. Harvard was struggling 




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manfully; the Wesleyans, now seeming to spurt, made 
straight for the finish, and Yale began to show her 
wonderful steady, stroke. Here is the struggle ! Yale 
is gaining; Harvard adds another to the minute, then 
loses. The Yale boys pull steadily and faultlessly as 
a machine; and right behind them, stealing ahead of 
Harvards’ bow, the Methodists are making a manful 
claim for the lead. 

FOURTH ARE THE ‘GREEN CAPS.’ 

“No mistaking that pair of knees working by the 
stroke. That they will lead is hopeless, but that they 
are widening the gaps between their rudder and the 
bows of the following crews is certain, and beyond the 
hopes of Dartmouth’s most sanguine supporters, she is 

PRESSING HARD ON HARVARD. 

“Thus they sweep on toward the end. Who will 
win cannot be told. The Harvards’ hopes are gone, 
yet the most beautifully of all they swing along the 
eastern bank, and down the middle of the river are 
hurrying the two leading boats. Between these and 
the crowd of slower boats the ‘ green caps,’ and fol¬ 
lowing close in their wake a multitude of the boats, 
struggling heroically against their fate. 

“And now, as the boats approach the finish, and the 
excitement reaches its climax, a-tiptoe and a-gape, the 
vast crowd of spectators on the eastern bank hold their 


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breath. With difficulty, even with field glasses, are 
the two leading crews distinguished, hut as they near 
the line it becomes certain that Yale is ahead and 
spurting gloriously, though a light-colored crew which 
the Bowdoin glasses mistake for their own is close upon 
them, and upon these two all interest for the moment 
centers. They are rowing beautifully, lapping nearly 
half a length. The Wesleyans on shore think they 
recognize the second boat as theirs. Shouts for Yale 
are already rolling up from the opposite shore, and 
are now taken up here by the hundreds of blue-badged 
collegians that are collected at this point. Suddenly 
the ‘red caps’ of Harvard are seen shooting along 
close by the eastern bank, and the air reverberated 
with the cries of 6 Harvard.’ But it is at once seen 
that she is behind the other two. Standing by the 
flag we keep our eyes along the line, sighting to the 
point on the other shore where the judges are located, 
in order to tell the exact moment the line is passed. 
The two boats in the distance cross, Yale perceptibly 
in the lead, but still lapped by Wesleyan, while the 
latter is at least a full boat-length beyond the line 
when the Harvards reach it. But the excitement is 
not yet over. Another batch of boats is coming like 
mad only a few boat lengths behind Harvard. The 
colors cannot be distinctly seen from this shore, but 
the leading crews plainly enough are topped with dark 
caps all of a color. Those immediately following 


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have light colors, and are plainly observed to he varie¬ 
gated. The first one must be Dartmouth or Williams, 
and surely Williams with her new man cannot be so 
well off. On, on, they come, the line is crossed, the 
dark caps are still ahead, Dartmouth is but 17 seconds 
behind Harvard. Of the positions of the crews that 
follow no reliable opinion can be formed from this 
point, and the spectators now turn to the singular per¬ 
formance of the Harvard crew, who for some unex¬ 
plainable reason think themselves the victors. Hav¬ 
ing crossed the goal line they row off to meet the 
referee’s boat, claiming the victory and obtaining the 
colors; then coming back to the shore, the cheers of 
Harvard that greet them drown every other sound; 
springing from their boat the crew are borne on the 
shoulders of the crowd up the bank, the flags are 
floated in the very faces of the victorious Yales, and 
for the moment the Harvards are wild with enthusi¬ 
asm, and the efforts of outsiders to learn on what 
grounds the victory is claimed are wholly ineffectual. 
They finally return to their boat, joyfully turn toward 
the city, and soon disappear. One by one the various 
crews slowly pull the oar up the river, the immense 
crowd scatters, the evening shades and mists begin to 
fall, and the great regatta, anticipated with so much 
interest, and made the object of such extensive prepa¬ 
ration, is numbered among the regattas that were. 
Only upon the arrival of the Harvard crew at Spring- 


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field, and after the colors have been dispatched by 
express to Cambridge, do they begin to comprehend 
the state of affairs, and understand that they are 
unquestionably and thoroughly defeated.” 

13 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


I N regard to the origin of the Rugby game at Dart¬ 
mouth, Clarence Howland ’84, captain of the eleven 
in ’80, ’81, and ’83, commonly known as the father of 
foot-hall at Dartmouth, contributed the following article : 

“ It was not until 1880 that the game of Rugby foot¬ 
ball received much attention at Dartmouth. Up to 
that date the ‘ Social and Frater ’ and ‘ Whole Divis¬ 
ion ’ had been the only kind of foot-ball game played on 
the campus. 

“At first Rugby had a hard struggle for existence ; all 
the faculty were more or less opposed to the game on 
account of its alleged roughness, and a great many of 
the students were down on it and some of them openly 
worked against its introduction. It was very seldom 
that enough men to constitute two elevens could be 
persuaded to come out for a practice game on the 
campus. Some idea of the foot-ball situation at Dart¬ 
mouth that fall, can be had by reading the following 
editorial, which was published in The Dartmouth of 
November 26, 1880: 

“‘No year has passed since we have been in college in 
which more or less effort has not been made to intro¬ 
duce here the Rugby game of foot-ball. The interest 



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has, however, always proved to be spasmodic, and the 
game has never found many admirers. This is the 
record of the past, but this fall has, if we can judge by 
appearances, witnessed the awakening of an interest in 
this sport which will be more than temporary. An 
association, to be called the Dartmouth Rugby Foot¬ 
ball association, has been formed, officers have been 
elected, and a university eleven chosen.’ 

“ The officers of the association for that fall were : 
Lines ’82, president; Niles ’83, vice president; Bullard 
’84, secretary; Chandler ’82, manager and treasurer. 

I was chosen captain of this first team, which was made • 
up as follows: Rushers, Drew ’83, Partridge ’82, 
Coombs ’83, Maxwell ’83, Humiston ’82, Howland ’84 
(captain ) ; quarter-back, Condon ’82 ; half-backs, 
Oakes ’83, Rice ’82; backs, G. O. Nettleton ’84, 
Mathewson ’82; and substitutes were Parker ’82, 
and Flint ’84. Efforts were made to arrange practice 
games with the Amherst and Phillips Andover 
teams, but it could not be done, so that the season’s 
work was confined to a few practice games on the 
campus. The next year, the fall of 1881, we began 
our training much earlier than in the previous year. 
The eleven was strengthened by Towle and Brooks, 
who were veterans at the game, having played on the 
Phillips Exeter academy team. 

“ On account of the faculty having voted not to allow 
the foot-ball team to play out-of-town games, and on 


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account of the alleged remoteness of Hanover, Mr. 
Ward ’82, manager of the team, found it a very diffi¬ 
cult matter to get a game on the home grounds, but 
finally Amherst agreed to play us two games, the first 
one at Hanover on November 16, 1881, and the return 
game to be played at Springfield, Mass., on Thanks¬ 
giving day. 

“ The first game was played on our campus, on the 
date above named. Arnd, captain of the Amherst 
team, kicked off at 3 p. m. The ball went out of 
bounds, near our goal line, was snapped hack, and 
Dartmouth took a safety, the hall being kicked out by 
Brown. Again the ball was forced to Dartmouth’s 
goal and another safety was made. The ball was 
brought out to 25-yard line and kicked out by Condon. 
Arnd got a fair catch and took a place kick which was 
stopped by Howland; the ball was snapped back and 
passed to Brooks, who got in a short run, followed by 
heavy rushing and good tackling on the part of Oakes. 
Drew succeeded in breaking through Amherst’s rush 
line, and when tackled passed the ball to Towle, who 
made a fine run and was held at Amherst’s 25-yard 
line. Then the ball was driven to the middle 
of the field, passed to Mills, who made a fine 
run. Again the hall was forced out to the mid¬ 
dle and Mills made another run, the ball being 
held near Dartmouth’s goal. Here the ball was 
lost and regained by Amherst; hut, by poor passing, 



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FIRST RUGBY TEAM, 1881. 

Towle, ’85. Drew, ’83. Webster, ’85. 

Flint, ’84. Nf.ttleton. ’84. Coombs, ’83. Brooks, ’85. 
Mathewson, ’82. Howland, ’84. Brown, 




















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Dartmouth got the hall. After more rushing the ball 
was passed to Oakes, who made a most brilliant run, 
dodging everybody, and was held only within a few 
feet of Amherst’s goal line. Some more scrimmaging 
resulted in Oakes getting the ball and winning a touch¬ 
down for Dartmouth. Time being called, no goal was 
obtained. At the beginning of the second half Gulick 
kicked off for Dartmouth. Arnd punted the ball back 
and it was secured by Oakes, who got in another run. 
Through a foul Dartmouth lost the ball, Whiting passed 
it back to Mills, who made a long punt to Gulick, who 
then got in the longest kick of the game, driving the 
ball to Amherst’s goal line, where they were forced to 
make a safety. Arnd brought the ball out, and his kick 
was followed by some hard rushing by both teams and 
good tackling by Condon. Cushman’s kick to Amherst’s 
goal line resulted in another safety. Oakes caught the 
ball from Arnd’s kick-out and made the best run of the 
day. Through a foul Dartmouth lost the ball and it 
was kicked to the middle of the field. The rest of the 
playing was mostly shoulder to shoulder, rushing from 
the center of the field, first toward Amherst’s and then 
toward Dartmouth’s goal, with no long runs. Just 
before the call of time Symonds made a fair catch for 
Amherst in front of Dartmouth’s goal, and tried a kick 
at goal but failed to secure it. Two minutes were left, 
which were occupied by rushing, and time was called 
near Dartmouth’s goal, the game standing one touch- 


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down for Dartmouth to nothing for Amherst (safeties 
did not count that season). The Dartmouth of Novem¬ 
ber 25,1881, in speaking of the game, said,—‘Amherst’s 
strong points were passing and punting the ball, while 
Dartmouth excelled in rushing and running, but was 
weak on passing. In tackling, the teams were about 
evenly matched. Too much praise cannot be given 
Oakes for his running and Drew for his rushing. 
Towle, Brooks, Whiting, Tuttle, and Sawyer did good 
work, and Mills made some excellent punts.’ 

“ According to the Amherst Student of December 1, 
1881, ‘ Dartmouth’s strong point was her heavy rush, 
especially Howland and Towle. Oakes also played a 
good game.’ 

“ Dartmouth’s team was as follows: Rushers, How¬ 
land ’84 (captain), Weston ’85, Drew ’83, Towle ’85, 
Cushman ’83, G. O. Nettleton ’84; quarter-back, Con¬ 
don ’82 ; half-backs, Brooks ’85, Oakes ’83; backs, 
E. L. Gulick ’83, C. H. Brown ’83. 

“ A heavy fall of snow greatly interfered with the 
game played at Hampden Park, Springfield, Mass., on 
Thanksgiving. In fact, anything like scientific play 
was out of the question under the circumstances of a 
slippery ball and a snow covered field, and conse¬ 
quently only a half hour game was played. The pass¬ 
ing was poor, also the running, and resulted in nothing 
but a rush game, and no point was scored by either 
team, though Lines ’82 came within about 10 feet of 


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scoring a touchdown for Dartmouth. The two teams, 
with one or two exceptions, were the same as in the 
previous contest. 

“ The second meeting with Dartmouth was celebrated 
in the Amherst Student of December 10, 1881, by a 
long poem of the mock-heroic style, part of which I 
will here quote: 


“ ‘ Neptune seized the ball 
But Phoebus, the far shooter, tackled him, 

And throwing him, sped off towards Amherst’s goal, 
And would have reached it. Amherst’s umpire then, 
The umpire of the adamantine cheek, 

Claimed here a foul, and there a something else, 

And so Poseidon, bruised about the head, 

Received the ball, but quickly hurled it back 
To Vulcan, fire-producing, bulwark then 
Of Amherst. He, despite his rheumatism 

Ten thousand miles, or some such trifle, ran 
Towards Dartmouth’s goal. There cunning Hermes 
stood, 

Who did not wish to have his fair shins bruised, 

And so played backer. Right in Vulcan’s path 
He stood, the strong defender of the goal.’ 

“ In the fall of 1882 the interest in Rugby increased. 
We had all of the previous year’s team back in col¬ 
lege, with the exception of Condon ’82, who had grad¬ 
uated. W. W. Niles, Jr., ’83 was chosen manager, 
and H. A. Drew ’83 was elected captain in my place, 
as I had to resign just before the McGill game on 


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account of a broken nose, which I had been unlucky 
enough to get in a practice game. 

“ The game with McGill University of Montreal was 
played on the campus October 31, 1882, and as the 
McGill team had hitherto played with fifteen men and 
Dartmouth with eleven, a compromise was made on 
thirteen players; it being further agreed that when 
McGill had the ball they could put it in play with the 
English style of scrimmage, and when Dartmouth had 
the ball they could use the American style of scrim¬ 
mage. The score was, Dartmouth 2 goals, McGill 0. 

“ The team was made up as follows : Dartmouth— 
Rushers, F. H. Weston ’85, J. L. Rand ’83, G. O. 
Nettleton ’84, H. A. Drew ’83 (captain), W. Y. Towle 
’85, F. O. Chellis ’85, R. H. Rolfe ’84; quarter-back, 
W. E. Cushman ’83; half-backs, C. W. Oakes ’83, J. 
P. Brooks ’85, H. B. Hurlbert ’84; full-backs, C. H. 
Brown ’83, L. D. Gove. Referee, C. Howland ’84. 

“ On November 9,1882, we played the Harvard team 
at Cambridge, and were defeated by a score of 53 to 
0, which caused The Dartmouth to come out with an 
editorial under this rather startling head, ‘ Rugby is 
dead! It is our sad duty to conduct the melancholy 
obsequies. * * * There was no doubt, no mystery 

about its death, and an inquest is totally unnecessary 
# * * and now if there is any other game that 

Dartmouth can play better than foot-ball, it would be 
well to encourage it.’ In spite of the foregoing, when 


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201 


the Rugby season opened in the fall of 1883 the game 
received more enthusiastic support than ever before. 
We labored under the disadvantage of having lost 
such good players as Drew, Oakes, Cushman, and 
Brown (all of whom had graduated the previous June), 
but we were helped out by the acquisition of Marble 
and Merrill, two good Exeter players, who entered the 
class of 1887. A good many candidates went into 
training for the team and everything was done to 
encourage the game and bring out foot-ball talent. 
The following men were finally chosen to represent 
Dartmouth on the foot-ball field for the season of ’83: 
Merrill ’87, Rolfe ’84, Atkins ’86, Howland ’84 (cap¬ 
tain), Weston ’85, G. O. Nettleton ’84, and Towle ’85, 
as rushers; Chellis ’85, quarter-back; Brooks ’85 and 
Hurlbert ’84, half-backs ; Marble ’87, full-back ; Horne 
’84 and Hodgkins ’85, substitutes. G. P. Weeks ’85 
was elected manager, and he at once set to work try¬ 
ing to arrange games, but found it just as difficult as it 
had been in previous years. After corresponding with 
Amherst, Wesleyan, Institute of Technology, the Uni¬ 
versity of Michigan, and all attempts to arrange 
games with any of them having failed, the foot-hall 
management finally secured a date with Williams for 
a game on their grounds on October 27, 1883. 

“ The game at Williamstown was opened at 1:45 p. m., 
with Mr. Smith of the Amherst Agricultural college as 
referee, Mr. Weeks umpire for Dartmouth, and Mr. 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Woodbridge umpire for Williams. Williams took the 
upper end of the field, and Dartmouth had the kick off? 
and by very good playing the ball was immediately 
forced within Williams’s 25-yard line, and after a few 
minutes a touch in goal was secured by Brooks, but in 
punting out Dartmouth lost the ball. Hewitt secured 
it and made a beautiful run, breaking through the 
rushers and carrying the ball to the centre of the field. 
Then Hurlbert seized the ball and made a very pretty 
run, which was well stopped by Taft. Hewitt made 
another run, finally downed by Howland. Dartmouth’s 
rush line did excellent work, and the last five minutes 
was characterized by hard playing near Williams’s goal. 
Neither side scored in the first three quarters, although 
the playing was in favor of Dartmouth. Horne ’84 
took the place of Rolfe ’84, who was hurt in the first 
half. In the second half the game began with hard 
fighting near Williams’s goal; after some exciting plays 
the ball was carried to centre by Field, and later 
Hewitt made a fair catch near Dartmouth’s 25-yard 
line. Safford tried a place kick, but the ball struck 
the left goal post, dropping outside. A little later the 
ball was passed to Safford, who kicked a goal from the 
field (the ball struck the cross-bar but went over). By 
good play by Merrill, Howland, and Brooks, the ball 
was now carried down near Williams’s goal, where, after 
they had made a safety, Brooks succeeded in obtaining 
a touchdown for Dartmouth, but so far to one side that 



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the try for goal was missed. Shortly after this Nettle- 
ton tried a drop kick from the center of the field, but 
missed a goal by only about a foot. For the last few 
minutes of the game the ball was kept close to Williams’s 
goal. The final score of the game was 5 to 3, in favor 
of Williams. 

“ The Dartmouth , in speaking of this game, said : 
4 One cannot overlook the grounds, which were forty 
feet short and twenty feet narrow, besides being ex¬ 
tremely wet and slippery, making it almost impossible 
to do any effective running.’ 

“The teams were as follows: Dartmouth, rushers,— 
Merrill ’87, Rolfe ’84 (Horne ’84), Atkins ’86, Towle 
’85, G. O. Nettleton ’84, Weston ’85, Howland ’84 
(captain) ; quarter-back, Chellis ’85 ; half-backs, 
Brooks ’85, Hurlbert ’84 ; full-back, Marble ’87. Wil¬ 
liams, rushers, Field, Jones, Corse, Garfield, Hubbel, 
Person ; quarter-back, Safford; half-backs, Hewitt 
(captain), Wells ; full-back, Taft. 

“ During my foot-ball career I have taken part in fully 
forty match games, and of them all this Williams game 
was the most unsatisfactory in its termination, as the 
referee plainly erred in disallowing Brooks’s first touch¬ 
down, by calling it a 4 touch in goal.’ If that touch¬ 
down had been allowed us the game would have resulted 
in a tie (5 to 5), instead of 5 to 3 against us. 

“ Williams would not give us the satisfaction of a 
return game at Hanover, and as we were unsuccessful 


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in arranging a game with Amlierst, Wesleyan, or An¬ 
dover, the Williams game was our only one in the fall 
of ’83, and the last one in which I took part as a mem¬ 
ber of a Dartmouth team. 

“ Taking into consideration all the difficulties which 
we had to contend with at Hanover during those four 
years, I think the players and the various managers,' 
who worked so hard to arouse interest in Rugby, have 
every reason to feel proud of the progress made during 
that time.” 

YALE AT HANOVER. 

In 1884, at considerable expense, Yale’s eleven was 
induced to come to Hanover. This did much toward 
arousing an interest in the game. Yale had, probably, 
the strongest team in the country, and 113 to 0 was 
the character of its victory. Yale’s centre rush stated 
after the game that the Dartmouth material was equal 
to their own. These were the plucky wearers of the 
“ green Rush line, J. B. Hodgdon, F. H. Weston, W. 
Y. Towle (captain), F. P. Atkin, H. C. Gross, W. H. 
Dartt, R. S. Currier; quarter-back, G. P. Weeks; 
half-hacks, J. P. Brooks and Scruton ; full-back, D. G. 
Marble. 

A great improvement was shown in the next game, 
which was against Harvard. The individual play was 
good, although team work was lacking. The work of 
Gross, Hodgdon, Brooks, and Weeks was noticeable. 


FOOT-B A.LL AT DARTMOUTH. 


205 


The Dartmouth men lined up as follows: Rushers, G. 
E. Fletcher, F. P. Atkin, J. B. Hodgdon, W. H. 
Dartt, C. R. Weston, H. C. Gross, W. Y. Towle (cap¬ 
tain) ; quarter-back, F. O. Chellis; half-hacks, J. P. 
Brooks and G. P. Weeks; full-back, D. G. Marble. 
The game was a victory for Harvard, 29 to 0. The 
remaining two contests of the season resulted in victo¬ 
ries against Tufts, or at least should be so regarded. 
The first game was called a tie, 10—10, although two 
touchdowns were made by the Dartmouth men after 
that score had been made, the umpire refusing to allow 
them on pretended technicalities. Brooks and Towle 
made phenomenal rushes, Gross tackled well, and Viau 
kicked finely. Dartmouth rushers: Fletcher, Atkin, 
Hodgdon, Dartt (centre), Weston, Gross, Towle ; quar¬ 
ter-back, Chellis; half-backs, Brooks and Viau; full¬ 
back, Marble. 

In the second game, played at Concord (N. H.), 
the “ green ” proved its title to superiority, 16 to 0. 
Brooks, Chellis, and Gross excelled. McCarthy played 
a fine game in Viau’s position. 

There was practically no interest in Rugby in 1885, 
and no practice games. 

IN EIGHTY-SIX. 

This year an eleven was organized which made a 
creditable showing, although a member of no league. 
The first game was played with Phillips academy at 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Andover, under so many disadvantages as to result in 
a defeat, 18 to 11, although there was little question 
that Dartmouth had the stronger team. 

On the following day a game was played with 
Institute of Technology in a rain-storm. Bodwell was 
distinguished for his long rushes, and Odlin for his 
kicking. The result was a victory for “ Tech.,” 11 to 
6, although the Boston papers said the game was given 
away by the umpire. Dartmouth nearly annihilated 
the University of Vermont eleven at Burlington by a 
score of 91 to 0. Odlin, Eaton, Hurd, Norton, and 
Viau did the best playing. The eleven was made up 
as follows: Rushers, W. B. Hazen, G. P. Hurd, E. J. 
Bodwell, W. H. Dartt (centre), A. M. Norton, W. L. 
Blossom, H. M. Eaton; quarter-back, W. Odlin (cap¬ 
tain) ; half-backs, L. Viau and A. L. Artz; full-back, 
A. Quackenboss. J. W. Kelley was the regular left 
tackle. B. F. Ellis, J. Morgan, and W. B. Hazen 
were substitutes. W. L. Merrill managed the eleven. 

DARTMOUTH IN THE LEAGUE. 

The Northern Foot-ball League was dissolved, and 
delegates from Amherst, Institute of Technology, 
Stevens, Wesleyan, and Trinity, arranged a meeting 
at Springfield, Mass., Dec. 17, 1886, for the purpose 
of forming a new association. Dartmouth sent Alex¬ 
ander Quackenboss ’87, and Clark ’88, to this conven- 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


207 


tion to ask for admissior. A new league was organ¬ 
ized, in which the u green ” was represented. 

The first practice game of the season of 1887 was 
against Tufts at Concord. The beginning of the game 
was loosely contested, but Tufts was no match for the 
Dartmouth eleven. Ellis, Hurd, Scruton, and Yeazey 
excelled. 

The personnel of the eleven this year was: Rushers, 
W. Odlin, J. P. Canty, B. F. Ellis, W. E. Stanley, A. 
H. Baehr, J. H. Fassett (centre) ; R. D. Upham, H. M. 
Eaton, E. J. Bodwell, G. P. Hurd, left-end; quarter- 
hack, J. A. Cunningham; half-hacks, A. L. Artz, L. 
E. Scruton, C. L. Cobb, J. A. Dennison ; full-back, A. 
B. Yeazey, manager. 

The championship season opened at Hoboken, Oct. 
25. The visitors were not confident, to say the least, 
and all its supporters were anxious as to its showing in 
the league. The appointed referee was not on hand 
# and a Stevens man had to be accepted. Almost the 
first decision was very important and probably wrong. 
At least it resulted in Dartmouth’s refusal to play un¬ 
less a competent man could be had. Shelden of Cor¬ 
nell displaced the first referee and play was resumed. 
Cunningham made the first touchdown after fifteen 
minutes. No goal. Stevens made a touchdown in 
the first of the second half. Dartmouth kept the ball 
close to Stevens’s goal during the remainder of the 
game, but it resulted in a tie, 4 to 4. 


208 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Technology, 24 ; Dartmouth, 15. After a hard and 
unsatisfactory game at Hoboken, the eleven was obliged 
by an unreasonable schedule to play “ Tech.” in Boston 
on the following day. A large Dartmouth contingent 
was present. Early in the game Odlin made a drop 
kick from near the centre of the field and scored a 
goal. The “ Techs.” then made a touchdown by suc¬ 
cessive rushes, then followed it by a second, with a goal. 
Merrill made a fine rush and a touchdown was scored 
for Dartmouth. In the second half, Cobb distinguished 
himself by a phenomenal rush. After another touch¬ 
down and goal for “ Tech.,” Hurd made one for Dart¬ 
mouth, and Odlin kicked a goal. “Tech.” scored 
another goal and safety. It was a rough game. 
Merrill, Odlin, and Hurd were most applauded. 

AMHERST DOWNED IN FIRST CONTEST. 

The first game on the campus was played with Am¬ 
herst, November 9, who entered the contest confidently, 
having given expression to the remark in a forecast of^ 
the season, “We have nothing to fear from Dart¬ 
mouth.” The fact that they were shut out in this 
game, 52 to 0, shows how vain was their boasting. 
Dartmouth had the kick-off. After two or three 
rushes Odlin was injured and Eaton took his place, 
leaving the eleven without a captain. Artz, by a 
strong rush, forced the pig-skin over Amherst’s line. 
The ball went from one side to the other once or 











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FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


209 


twice, when Fassett got it and made a phenomenal 
rush. It was soon over the Amherst line again. Am . 
herst then rushed down the field with determination, 
but Artz stopped them by a fine tackle and the ball 
went to the “green.” Fassett was forced over the line 
twice in rapid succession, and in a few minutes more 
he was over again. Cobb and Ellis each made touch¬ 
downs. The second half, like the first, was a walk¬ 
over, five touchdowns and a goal being scored. Vea- 
zey, who relieved Hazen when injured, did excellent 
rushing. The all-around work of the team was greatly 
superior to that of Amherst. 

The last of the championship series was a victory 
over Tufts, on the campus, 66 to 0. The game was 
even more one-sided than the previous one. Every 
player did highly creditable work. Rushers, Hurd, 
Eaton, Ellis, Fassett, Stanley, Canty, Odlin; quarter¬ 
back, Cunningham; half-back, Artz, Cobb (Hazen); 
full-back, Scruton. “Tech.” won the pennant, with 
Dartmouth second, Trinity and Amherst following in 
the order named. 

DARTMOUTH AND “TECH.” TIED FOR THE PENNANT IN 

1888 . 

The eleven was made up as follows: W. Odlin 
(captain), right end, A. H. Baehr, W. E. Stanley, J. 
H. Fassett, C. S. Little, H. H. Folsom, R. L. Doring, 

14 


210 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


J. P. Canty, H. S. Eaton ; quarter-back, F. W. Lake- 
man; half-backs, L. E. Scruton, D. P. Jones, and B. 
F. Ellis ; full-back, P. Viau. The first game was with 
Harvard, resulting in a defeat, 74 to 0. Three times 
the ball was within Harvard’s five-yard line and twice 
it is believed touchdown would have been scored had 
it not been for erratic decisions. Scruton and Lake- 
man excelled. 

The eleven was defeated at Exeter, 10 to 0. A 
weak team being put in, disadvantages of grounds 
and misinterpretation of rules account for the result. 

The next day the Andovers defeated the ’Varsity, 
14 to 4. The men were nearly all exhausted and 
crippled by the continuous riding and playing. 

The championship games began with Technology 
November 10. The game was hotly contested for 33 
minutes, when the first score was made. Dartmouth, 
by the fine rushes of Scruton, Lakeman, Ellis, Jones, 
Baehr, and Canty, secured a touchdown. The 
“green” rush line was strong. Little, Doring, and Fas- 
sett were hard men to force back. Viau displaced 
Jones, and Jones displaced Odlin. In the second half 
“Tech.” seemed destined to score, but Canty got the 
ball, Viau kicked, Lakeman got the leather on a fum¬ 
ble, and ran, by fine dodging, half the length of the 
field, scoring a touchdown. Jones was hurt. Stanley 
took his place. Ellis, by good interference from the 
other men, carried the ball over “ Tech.’s ” line four 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


211 


times during the remainder of the game. Lakeman 
completed the scoring by a long run of 50 yards. 

Dartmouth won a second victory on the campus, 
over Williams, by a score of 36 to 6. She played a 
sharp, driving game, bunching the backs on any weak 
spot; a game which Williams was long unable to 
fathom. The opponents tried to run around the ends 
for the most part, but were not very successful. The 
Dartmouth rush line again proved its invincibility. In 
five minutes Williams scored a touchdown and goal. 
Four minutes later Dartmouth made a touchdown ; 
no goal. By good line work and fine tackling by 
Lakeman, Scruton sailed over the opponent’s line; no 
goal; Yiau carried the next ball over and Odlin 
kicked a goal. Ellis, Scruton, Fassett, and Odlin 
added six more points to the “green.” Yiau and 
Canty did some fine rushing, and Lakeman was be¬ 
hind the Williams goal. Williams did better work in 
the second half but she could not score. Yiau and 
Ellis each got a touchdown. Lakeman played one of 
his best games. The Dartmouth was led to publish 
the popular phrase, “Who was ‘ Bob Lakeman,’ ” etc. 
in consequence of his excellence. 

The third game was with Stevens at Williamstown, 
resulting in a defeat, 30 to 0. The ground was so wet 
that it was scarcely better than a quagmire. Dart¬ 
mouth’s heavy men could not run. Sliding and slip¬ 
ping over each other, fumbling and stumbling was the 


212 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


order of play. The day was very cold. It was ap¬ 
parent to the observer that Dartmouth had the stronger 
team, but was struggling against great odds. This 
cost the “ green” a championship. 

Dartmouth defeated Amherst on Blake Field, 
November 21, by the decided score of 40 to 0. Cap¬ 
tain Odlin won the toss and kept the ball on his side 
until Amherst was forced back over her line ; time, 
three minutes. From the 25-yard line Amherst tried 
to go forward, but her halves were downed in their 
tracks before they could start. Dartmouth got the ball 
and moved steadily down the field. Yiau carried the 
ball over. Scruton made another touchdown in two 
minutes. Amherst came up the field, then was forced 
back. Scruton again scores. The Dartmouth men were 
at this point ordered to save themselves, as a tie game 
was to be played, and Amherst would be unable to 
overcome the gain already scored. The centremen, 
Lakeman and Jones, were conspicuous. 

The convention of the Intercollegiate Foot-ball Asso¬ 
ciation met at Springfield, Mass., December 7. Dart¬ 
mouth was represented by Manager Blair, Captain 
Odlin, and Junior Director Beacham. The “Tech.”- 
Stevens protest was decided by the rules in favor of 
“ Tech.” The championship for the season just closed 
was declared a tie between Dartmouth and “ Tech.” 
It was voted that in the future the college holding the 
championship shall retain it in the case of a tie. 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


213 


Much of the success this year was due to the hard 
and loyal work of Manager Blair. 

THE SEASONS OF ’89, 90, ’91, 

have been vividly reviewed for this volume by Edward 
Kimball Hall ’92, now Professor of Physical Culture 
in the University of Illinois, as follows : 

“ The foot-ball season of ’89 at Dartmouth marks an 
era in the development of the game in the old New 
Hampshire college. Up to that time the play had been 
distinctively of the old style, the teams playing a rough, 
fierce, individual game; depending far more upon beef 
and grit than upon scientific training and brave work. 
The success of the team in ’89 was largely due to its man¬ 
agement. Dartmouth owes and heartily gives all honor 
to Clarence Howland ’84, as the founder of foot-hall at 
Hanover, and to William Odlin, captain of the cham¬ 
pionship team of ’89, she as freely and heartily gives 
the credit of developing and perpetuating the game. 

“ The season of ’89 opened with a game at Andover, 
Dartmouth winning easily, 45 to 4 ; and the following- 
day defeating Exeter, 34 to 0. 

“A week later a second game with Andover resulted, 
Dartmouth 20, Andover 4; Andover playing a kicking 
game, and thus keeping the score low. The following 
day the team lined up against Harvard as follows: 

“ Smith and Norton, ends; Folsom and Segur, tackles; 
Little and Abbott, guards ; Doring, centre ; Lakeman, 


214 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


quarter-back; Tyler and Humphreys, half-backs; 
Odlin, full-back. Harvard scored 28 points in the first 
half, but in the second Dartmouth strengthened, and 
held them to 10, the final score being, Harvard 38, 
Dartmouth 0. 

“ This was the last practice game, and the champion¬ 
ship season opened with Amherst at Hanover, Oct. 30. 

“ The league schedule for Dartmouth was announced 
by Manager Beacham, as follows: 

Dartmouth vs. Amhersts, at Hanover, Oct. 30. 

“ vs. Tech., at Boston, Nov. 2. 

“ vs. Williams, at Springfield, Nov. 23. 

“ vs. Stevens, at Hoboken, Nov. 28. 


“The Amherst game was a walkover for Dart¬ 
mouth, the score being, Dartmouth 60, Amherst 6. 
The teams lined up as follows: 


Amherst. 

Raley 

Allen 

Weldon 

Jacobs 

Morse 

Crocker 

Upton 

Holden 

Jackson 

Smith 

Houghton 


Rushers 


Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-back 


Dartmouth. 
' Smith 
Folsom 
Little 
< Fassett 
Abbott 
Segur 
. Norton 
Lakeman 
| Humphreys 
J Weeks 
Odlin 


“Dartmouth scored the first touchdown within a min¬ 
ute from the start. The score of the first half was 36 
to 6 in favor of Dartmouth. Raley secured Amherst 
a touchdown by picking up a fumbled ball, and running 




FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


215 


nearly the length of the field. The second half was a 
repetition of the first, the final score being 60 to 6. Hum¬ 
phreys, Segur, Folsom, and Odlin played the best game 
for Dartmouth. 

“ The next game, which was with Tech., was more 
closely contested. Following is the line up: 


Technology. 

Kales 

Weiss 

Harvey 

Rice V 

Neilson 

Beattie 

Voyce 

Noblet 

Germer ) 

Waite \ 

Slade 


Rushers 

Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-back 


Dartmouth. 
Smith 
Segur 
Little 
i, Fassett 
Abbott 
Folsom 
. Norton 
Lakeman 
Humphreys 
Weeks 
Odlin 


“ The score for the first half was 12 to 6 in favor of 
Dartmouth. The superior training of the wearers of 
the ‘ green ’ told in the second half, making the final 
score 42 to 6. Tech, played a running, kicking game, 
while Captain Odlin relied greatly on rush-line work. 
Humphreys, Weeks, Segur, and Abbott excelled for 
Dartmouth. It was during this time that Ide first ap¬ 
peared on the foot-ball field, and his playing the first 
week gave promise of the brilliant game he played later 
in his course. 

“ The Williams-Dartmouth game was called in the 
morning of the Yale-Harvard game, and hundreds 
of college men who were in the city to see the 
‘ blue ’ battle against the ‘ crimson ’ came out in the 




216 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


morning to see the ‘purple’ versus the ‘green.’ It was 
truly a battle royal. The winners of the game would 
become the champions of the league. 

“ The day was cold and cloudy, the wind blowing a 
gale. Both teams were loyally supported by nearly 
half the students of their respective colleges. Several 
hundred Harvard men cheered for Dartmouth through¬ 
out the game, and Dartmouth’s lusty two hundred re¬ 
paid them in the afternoon. This little incident is the 
origin of the good feeling Dartmouth has had, of late 
years, toward Harvard. The teams lined up as follows : 


Williams. 


Dartmouth. 


Bigelow 

Lovell 

Rowland 

Allen 

Hotchkiss 

Nelson 

Lafayette 

Brown 

Garfield 

Durand 

Campbell 


Rushers 


Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-back 


r Smith 
Segur 
Little 
< Fassett 
Abbott 
Folsom 
„ Norton 
Lakeman 
$ Humphreys 
/ Ide 
Odlin 


“For the first half hour neither side scored, but at 
last, with Williams’s ball on Dartmouth’s 15-yard line, 
Campbell tried for a goal from the field, which he 
secured. The remaining few minutes saw some hard 
fighting but no scoring. The second half opened with 
a touchdown for Williams within five minutes. The 
score 9—0 looked bad for Dartmouth. The eleven 
from Hanover, however, realized what depended on 
them and played like fiends. Captain Odlin’s voice 









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rang out across the field, as it has so many times 
across the old campus, as he rallied and encouraged 
his men. They responded nobly, and in two minutes 
Ide and Humphreys had carried the ball to the 5-yard 
line. Williams braced for a mighty effort. Odlin 
called for the hall himself, charged for the center, and 
finding no hole dove between Segur’s legs. Segur, 
with his characteristic quickness, seized him by the 
belt, and aided by Fassett and Little carried him over 
the line. A few minutes later Odlin made one of the 
longest kicks ever recorded in a game. Campbell 
punted and Odlin caught the ball on Dartmouth’s 25- 
yard line, dodged two Williams rushers who were com¬ 
ing down on the ball, and with a long side sweep sent 
the ball high into the air. It was a wonderful punt. 
The wind caught the ball, and carried it far over the 
Williams backs, and before any one could touch it, it 
had rolled across the goal line against the fence, where 
Humphreys dropped on it for a touchdown. 

“Ten minutes later, Norton, catching the ball on a 
blocked punt, dodged through the opposing team for a 
long sprint down the field and another touchdown. 
The Dartmouth contingent on the side lines went wild, 
and the green-stockinged eleven seemed to catch some 
of their enthusiasm, for they hit the Williams line like 
a cyclone, and before time was called had scored two 
more touchdowns. Score—Dartmouth, 20; Williams, 
9. For Dartmouth, the entire team played a strong, 


218 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


steady game, Ide, Humphreys, Norton, Folsom, and 
Segur excelling. Norton’s playing was gilt-edged. 

“ This game gave Dartmouth the championship, to 
which she still more strongly proved her right on 
Thanksgiving day by defeating Stevens at Hoboken, 
18 to 5. 

“Thus the season closed with a clean record, the 
team meeting with only one defeat, and that being by 
Harvard. The game played for the season of ’89 had 
been by far the most thoroughly developed of any 
foot-ball at Hanover up to that time. Individually 
the record was as good as collectively. Jim Fassett 
in the center was both figuratively and literally a 
tower of strength. Little and Abbott could hardly be 
duplicated as guards. Segur played a reckless dare¬ 
devil game which inspired the whole team. Folsom’s 
game was sure and faithful, hard, and at times savage. 
He was always in every play and his endurance and 
courage seemed unlimited. Lakeman at quarter 
played a good game, but his forte was defensive play, 
his tackling being hard, timely, and effective. Hum¬ 
phreys and Ide, especially in the later games, did 
some beautiful work in advancing the ball. They 
played together like clockwork, and both being 
sprinters their runs were always a feature of the game. 
Norton’s work on the end was of the superlative 
degree. Odlin captained the team with a cool head 
and never failing judgment. He was a sure tackle, 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


219 


a good ground gainer, and an exceptionally good 
kicker. For four years he had labored faithfully 
in the face of all kinds of obstacles to bring out 
a championship team, and in this his last year his 
labors were crowned with victory. 


THE SEASON OF ’90. 


“ The season of ’90 began with all the auspices point¬ 
ing to another pennant. With the record of ’89’s vic¬ 
torious team for an example, with Lakeman ’92 as 
captain, Doring ’91 as manager, and Gill, Yale’s famous 
tackle, as coach, and an abundance of promising ma¬ 
terial for an eleven, the prospect seemed very bright. 

“ Gill coached the team for about three weeks, and 
then returned to New Haven to coach Yale. 

“ The first game was with Andover, October 3, the 

Dartmouth eleven being severely handicapped by the 

absence of Captain Lakeman and Little. The low 

score was disappointing, being 10 to 5 in favor of 

Dartmouth. The following day the team lined up 

against Harvard, on Jarvis Field, as follows: 

Dartmouth. Harvard. 

f Cumnock 


Allen 

Scruton ) 
McKav 1 



Rushers 


I Upton 
| Heard 

< Cranston 
Blanchard 
Newell 

„ Hallowell 
\ Dean 
I Burgess 
( Corbett 

< Lake 
( Lee 

Tr afford 


Quarter-back 


McKay 

Ide 

Norton 


Half-backs 


Full-back 



220 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Dartmouth made a very poor showing, the score 
being 43 to 0. She showed no signs of team work and 
the two backs could do almost nothing toward advan¬ 
cing the ball. Dartmouth’s defensive was entirely 
individual, Price, Little, Segur, and Folsom doing the 
best work. 

The following week, at Hanover, Dartmouth defeated 
the University of Vermont eleven, 71 to 0. 

October 22 the eleven again went to Cambridge, and 
for the first half put up a strong game. Harvard put 
her best team in the field, with the exception of Cum¬ 
nock. The teams lined up as follows: 


Dartmouth. 
Hall 
Walker 
Little 
Segur y 
Stanley 
Folsom I 
Price J 
Lakeman 
Scruton ) 
Weston [ 
Weeks ) 
Norton 


Rushers 


Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-back 


Harvard. 
f Hallowell 
I Newell 
Cranston 

< Bangs 
Heard 

| Upton 
(. Fearing 
Dean 
( Corbett 

< Lake 
( Lee 

Trafford 


The first half was a stubborn fight, time being called 
with the score 18 to 0. It looked as if Dartmouth 
would reduce the score of the previous game, but the 
Dartmouth contingent on the bleachers were soon dis 
appointed. Little was disqualified and Segur injured. 

These two veterans were the men who supplied the 
Dartmouth eleven with confidence, and their loss was 
felt at once. The team seemed to lose heart, and the 



FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


221 


heavy Harvard backs tore through the hole in the line 
with little opposition. The story of the last half is best 
told by the final score, which was 64 to 0. Weston distin¬ 
guished himself by a long run of thirty-five yards. 
Price tackled everything that came in his way and 
Norton’s punting was exceptionally good. 

The following day the team defeated Andover, 10 to 
0. The first championship game was on the home 
campus, with Bowdoin, Nov. 1, the teams lining up as 
follows: 


Dartmouth 

Price 

Folsom 

Stanley 

Jones 

Little 

Lakeman 

Hall 

Allen 

Weston 'i 
Weeks 1 
Ide 

Segur J 
Norton 


Rushers 

Quarter-back 
Half-backs 
Full-back 


Bowdoin. 
f Carleton 
Horne 
Hastings 
< Jackson 
Parker 
Tukey 
Nichols 
Hilton 

{ Foss 
Newman 
Bartlett 

Hilton 


The Bowdoin team was an aggregation of giants, and 
before the game it looked as though the score would 
be close. Dartmouth soon showed her superior knowl¬ 
edge of the game, however, and after the first five 
minutes the result was not in doubt. The play was 
hard and very rough. Bowdoin showed no team work? 
being especially poor in blocking. The score was 42 
to 0, in Dartmouth’s favor. Folsom and Lakeman 
played the best ball for Dartmouth, breaking through 
and stopping plays behind the line continuously. Lake- 




222 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


man proved emphatically the wisdom of going from 
quarter to tackle. The Dartmouth backs fumbled 
badly, otherwise the score would have been much 
longer. 

November 18 the team started south for the games 
with Amherst and Williams. “ Tech.” had forfeited to 
Dartmouth, Bowdoin was out of it, Williams had beaten 
Amherst 6 to 0, so the pennant lay between Williams 
and Dartmouth. November 19 the teams lined up at 
Amherst as follows: 


Amherst. 
Griswold 'j 
Alexander I 
Morse 

Lewis } 

Stewart 

Allen 

Raley I 

Lyall 

Talcott ) 
Delabarre | 
Cutler ) 
Pratt 


Rushers 

Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-back 


Dartmouth. 
f Price 
Folsom 
| Carson 
■{ Jones 
Little 

| Lakeman 
l Hall 
Allen 

\ Scruton 
| Weston 

Norton 


During the first half neither team scored, the play 
being in Amherst’s territory nearly the whole time. 
Dartmouth lost a golden opportunity to score, when the 
ball was on Amherst’s 11-yard line, by giving the 
signal for a line man to carry the ball instead of using 
the backs. The ball was lost on downs and Amherst 
punted it back into safer territory. Again, in the 
second half, Dartmouth lost an opportunity to score by 
trying for a goal on the 15-yard line, the ball going to 
Amherst on the 25-yard line on a touchback. 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


223 


The ball passed from one eleven to the other, till it 
became too dark to distinguish the players, and Cap¬ 
tains Morse and Lakeman agreed that the game should 
be called at a certain time. It was Amherst’s ball on 
her own territory, and when the ball was passed back 
it was almost impossible for the opposing J;eam to see 
who carried it. The play started for the end, when 
one of Dartmouth’s backs jumped in and tackled one of 
the blockers, supposing he was the man who carried 
the ball. Meanwhile the back who carried the ball 
went sailing down through the dusky darkness of the 
benighted whence. He was stopped down there on 
Dartmouth’s 20-yard line. Here Amherst began a 
series of her turtle crawls, which she had been using for 
steady gains through the whole game. It was already 
after the time set for calling the game, but for some 
unexplainable reason the referee refused to call time. 
After five minutes more of hard fighting Amherst had 
the ball on the 5-yard line. 

Meanwhile the crowd, having become more enthusi¬ 
astic than courteous, and being unable to distinguish the 
foot-ball field from the side lines, swarmed onto the 
field to get their money’s worth and made a circle about 
the players, using the rush line as a diameter for said 
circle. For the last five or ten minutes oblivion reigned 
supreme. Meanwhile the referee was on the outside of 
the multitude, vehemently clamoring for admittance, 
which was ungraciously refused. 


224 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Suddenly a dark Figure was seen to emerge from the 
heterogeneous mass of legs, arms, and imprecations, and 
disappear in the crowd. This caused no comment 
among the Wriggling Mass or the spectators, the spec¬ 
tators being busy trying to discern the Wriggling Mass 
and the Wriggling Mass firmly believing that the Dark 
Form was that of some Kind Man, who had gone to 
consult with the umpire about some alleged offside play 
in the Wriggling Mass. One of the attaches of the 
local institution of learning now thought it would be 
Fine Sport to punch with his fist at the Wriggling Mass. 
While he was Having Fun this way, a shout of Great 
Joy was heard from the Referee and the Dark Form. 
A match was illuminated, and the Following Facts were 
brought to light: The Dark Form had carried the ball 
with him when he went. It was the same ball that the 
Wriggling Mass had been hunting for within itself ever 
since he had left. The Dark Form had found the ref¬ 
eree under the goal, lighting sulphur matches to throw 
light on his Watch. The Dark Form had placed the 
ball across the line and the referee, having examined this 
deed with his lighted matches, declared it a Touch- 
Down. He then called the game. 

Thus the game ended : Amherst, 4 ; Dartmouth, 0. As 
far as the scoring was concerned it was a perfect farce, 
as several of the Amherst team admitted next day. 
Dartmouth clearly out-played her opponents, the ball 
being in Amherst’s territory nearly the whole time. 










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225 


Weston, Price, Folsom, and Little played the best game 
for Dartmouth. 

“ The next game was at Williamstown, three days af¬ 
ter, and on it the championship depended. The ground 
which had been frozen in the morning had softened, 
and the mud was deep and sticky, making fast work out 
of the question.—The teams lined up as follows : 


Dartmouth. 

Hall 

Lakeman 

Little 

Jones 

Carson 

Folsom 

Price 

Allen 

Weston ) 
Scruton j 
Norton 


Rushers 


Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-back 


Williams. 

' Lafayette 
Nelson 
Sawtelle 
■ Allen 
Hotchkiss 
Cluett 
Bigelow 
Brown 
Street 
Rogerson 
Hall 


“ The game was hard fought and the result was in 
doubt till the end. 

“ In the first half Williams, by dogged team work, 
made the only touchdown of the game from which a 
goal was kicked. In the second half there was no 
scoring, although both teams came near it. 

“For Dartmouth, Weston played nearly the whole 
game back of the line. He hit the Williams line like 
a battering-ram and never failed to gain ground. 
Lakeman and Folsom made good gains from the line. 

“It was Williams’s magnificent team work and Cap¬ 
tain Brown’s cool head that won the game. 

“ This game closed the season, Williams winning the 
15 




226 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


championship. Never were Williams, Dartmouth, 
and Amherst so evenly matched, only sixteen points 
being scored in the three games, the scores being 6—0, 
4—0, 6—0. 

“ In looking hack over the season, it seems that Dart¬ 
mouth ought to have won. There were surely no very 
weak places in the team, and, individually, the men 
on an average outclassed their opponents. Jones, at 
center, played like a veteran. Little, at guard, played 
a star game the whole season, his only fault being that 
he was a trifle too thirsty for gore. He did not meet 
a guard who ever got the best of him. The Boston 
Globe’s account of the second Harvard game was pref¬ 
aced by the following head lines ,— 6 For the First Time 
in His Career on the Foot-Ball Field, John Cranston 
Met His Match.’ Cranston will be remembered as 
the crack guard of the country before Heffelfinger 
came into prominence. Lakeman played a better 
game at tackle even than he had played at quarter. 
He was a sure tackier and one of the best ground 
gainers on the team. Folsom, with the possible excep¬ 
tion of the Harvard game, did not meet his superior 
during the entire season. Price’s game was magnifi¬ 
cent. His tackling was brilliant and always sure. 
Not once during the entire season did a play go around 
his end. He was always down on the ball, and always 
in the blocking. Allen, at quarter, blocked well and 
played a strong defense. Weston proved to be one of 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


227 


the best half-backs Dartmouth ever had. He seldom 
made very long runs, hut he was a powerful line 
breaker, and his play through the line was always 
good for three or four yards. Norton at full-back 
tackled severely and punted well. If such a team had 
played together, it seems from a retrospective stand¬ 
point that the result would have been different. 


THE SEASON OF NINETY-ONE 


opened with an abundance of foot-ball material. 
Lakeman was again captain of the eleven and C. H. 
Gould ’92 was manager. 

“ Bowdoin withdrew from the league and Stevens was 
admitted. The first practice game was at Cambridge, 
October 4, the teams lining up as follows : 


Harvard. 


Dartmouth. 


Miller 

Shea 

Vail 

Rantoul > 
Highlands I 
Newell 
Curtis J 
Burgess 
White 
Gage 
Lake 
Trafford 


Rushers 


Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-back 


' Barton 
Bell 
Abbott 
< Jones 
Folsom 
Lakeman 
Hall 
McKay 

J Ide 
j Pollard 

Price 


u The score of the game was lower than even the 
most sanguine had hoped for, Harvard scoring only 
sixteen points. Short halves were played, and that 
accounts to some extent for the lowness of the score. 
Nevertheless, the game indicated great possibilities for 




228 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


the Dartmouth eleven. Harvard scored the first 
touchdown within about a minute after play was 
called. The remainder of the game was a close, hard 
struggle, Harvard scoring once more in the first half. 
In the second, Dartmouth took a decided brace and 
held the Cambridge eleven to one touchdown. Time 
was called with Dartmouth in possession of the ball on 
Harvard’s 25-yard line. Score, Harvard, 16; Dart¬ 
mouth, 0. Ide, Jones, and Folsom played the best 
game for Dartmouth, hut the whole eleven played 
good foot-hall. 

“ This was the only practice game of the season, 
although Manager Gould had several more scheduled. 
Just at the last minute each team cancelled its date. 

“ The first championship contest was with Stevens, at 
Hoboken, November 4, the teams lining up as follows : 


Dartmouth. 

Hall 

Dodge 

Folsom 

M. B.Jones 

Abbot 

E. E. Jones 

Barton 

McKay 

Bell 

Pollard 

Ide 

Price 


Rushers 

Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-back 


Stevens. 

Grisnold 

Hutchinson 

Schumacher 

Canda 

McKenzie 

Maynard 

Coyne 

Terry 

McKenzie 

Huke 

Fielder 


u Captain Lakeman had been injured in practice, and 
Dodge had taken his place. In the first half Dart¬ 
mouth showed her lack of practice games. The backs 
made long gains, only to drop the ball when tackled. 




FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


229 


The score at the end of the first half was 12 to 6, in 
Stevens’s favor. In the second Dartmouth took a brace 
and pounded the Stevens line, and circled her ends to 
the extent of 26 points, making the score, Dartmouth, 
32 ; Stevens, 12. A score which indicated a weakness 
in defensive play inconsistent with the strength shown 
in offensive. E. E. Jones played a star game for Dart¬ 
mouth. 


“ Three days later on the home grounds the team 
lined up against Amherst as follows : 


Dartmouth. 

Hall 

Dodge 

Folsom 

M. B. Jones 

Abbott 

E. E. Jones 

Barton 

McKay 

Pollard 

Ide 

Price 


Rushers 

Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-back 


Amherst. 
f Upton 
I Alexander 
| Smith 
< Lewis 
Haskell 
Baldwin 
Raley 
Pratt 
Ewing 
Gould 
Stearns 


“The game was rather loosely played, Amherst 
showing the better team work. 

“ Amherst’s scores in practice had led Dartmouth to 
look for a comparatively easy game, but although Am¬ 
herst did not play a particularly strong game Dart¬ 
mouth seemed to be barely able to tie the game. But 
two goals were kicked out of six chances. Another 
goal would have won the game. The final score was 
14 to 14. Lewis played the game for Amherst. 

“ Even the most hopeful acknowledged that Dart¬ 
mouth was out of the race. The members of the team 




230 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


were disheartened to learn that Captain Lakeman’s 
injuries, by which he had been kept out of the 
championship games so far, had been found to be so 
serious as to entirely preclude all hopes of his playing 
in the Williams game. Weston and Weeks, the two 
crack half-backs of the year before, were both laid up 
and unable to play in the game which was to decide 
the championship. Lakeman resigned the captaincy 
in favor of Hall but continued to assist in the 
coaching. 

“It is safe to say that the old campus never saw 
such a hard week of foot-ball as the one preceding the - 
Williams game. The men worked with desperation. 
Each night saw the members of the Varsity packed 
into some room discussing the game and working out 
new plays, one of which was the ‘stone wall,’ which 
every man on that team will always remember, and 
which made such long gains in the Williams game. 

“ The teams lined up for the play as follows, Novem¬ 
ber 14: 


Dartmouth. 

Hall ) 

Folsom 

Walker 

M. B. Jones > 

Abbott 

E. E. Jones 

Barton 

McKay 

Smith 1 

Ide ! 

Dodge [ 

Pollard J 

Price 


Rushers 

Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-back 


Williams. 
Lafayette 
Nelson 
Bothne 
< Allen 
Sawtelle 
Townshend 
„ Rogerson 
Brown 

Street 

Garfield 

Fargo 





FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


231 


“ The Dartmouth in speaking of the game said, 
‘It was the hardest fought game ever seen on our 
campus, and the game was doubtless the strongest ever 
put up by a Dartmouth eleven.’ 

“ Captain Brown of Williams said that it was by all 
odds much the hardest game Williams played during 
the entire season. One of his men had to be carried 
to the train, being unable to walk from sheer exhaus¬ 
tion. Williams started with the ball. Dartmouth 
soon secured it, but lost it again. The ball passed 
back and forth for some time when Ide protected 
by the ‘ stone wall ’ advanced it 30 yards. Fol¬ 
som followed with 8, and Ide once more got be¬ 
hind the ‘ wall ’ for 25 yards, but dropped the ball 
when tackled only 10 yards from the goal line. 
Fargo punted and Williams soon secured the ball 
again, and started for a touchdown. Time after 
time the Williams backs gathered around Street and 
carried him between end and tackle for a sure 3 
yards. Steadily the ball approached the line, and 
finally Street carried it across. There was no more 
scoring in the first half. 

u During the intermission it was found that Price 
had received a severe blow on his head which had 
shattered his memory. He could not recall signals 
or any past event. 

“ In the second half Dartmouth started with the ball, 
Ide going to full-back and Pollard taking Ide’s place 


232 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


at half. Dartmouth took a terrific brace, and after 
losing the ball once, started for a touchdown. 

44 The 4 stone wall ’ netted 14, 25, and 20 yards in 
quick succession; Pollard making the touchdown from 
which Ide kicked a goal; score, 6 — 6. Williams 
took the ball and played desperately, their team work 
being perfect. Street and Garfield bucked the line 
like battering-rams, and in twenty minutes had scored 
another touchdown, 10 — 6. The wearers of the 
green took the ball and played like fiends ; steadily 
the ball approached the goal, where it was lost for hold¬ 
ing. A little later Fargo punted, Dartmouth muffed 
the ball, Williams secured it on the 5-yard line, and 
Street carried it across, 14 — 6. Only two minutes 
were left, but in three successive rushes the 4 stone 
wall’ took the ball nearly to the line. Time was 
called with Williams 14, Dartmouth 6. 

44 The score fails to show the closeness of the game, 
the result being constantly in doubt till Williams made 
her last touchdown. 

44 The following week Dartmouth defeated Tech., 
8 to 6. 

44 Thus ended another unsatisfactory season. Good 
material,—no pennant. If future teams will profit by 
the costly experiences of ’90 and ’91, then possibly those 
two seasons may be in the future more productive of 
good than they were at the time. The lesson to 
be learned is two-fold. First, the eleven must have 



C. S. Humphreys ’90. 













































FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


233 


efficient coaching. Second, they must have good prac¬ 
tice games. Dartmouth has probably never had better 
material than she had in ’91. Jones was, without ques¬ 
tion, if not the best, at least as good as any, centre Dart¬ 
mouth ever had. Folsom was one of the best foot-ball 
players that ever wore the ‘ green.’ Like Little of ’91 
he was a born foot-ball player; powerful and absolutely 
fearless, faithful and aggressive. E. E. Jones was a 
good tackle. Abbott at guard was like a rock. As 
Sawtelle of Williams expressed it, ‘He wasn’t very 
swift, but he was the hardest man to move I ever 
bumped up against.’ McKay at quarter used good 
judgment in working the backs, blocked well, and tackled 
surely. Price, who was undoubtedly the best end 
Dartmouth ever had, was also a success at full-back, his 
tackling and blocking being brilliant. In Ide, Smith, 
Pollard, and Dodge, Dartmouth certainly had a fine 
quartette of half-backs to select from. 

“ If future teams will profit by the failures of ’90 
and ’91, then perhaps those hard battles were not 
fought in vain.” 

SEASON OF NINETY-TWO. 

The season of 1892 opened with an ordinary degree 
of hope for Dartmouth in foot-ball. William Odlin, 
an enthusiastic Dartmouth man and a good trainer, 
worked hard with the candidates, most of whom were 
inexperienced, and put into the field a creditable team. 


234 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Captain Allen and Manager Gordon did hard and faith¬ 
ful work. Amherst was especially strong, having 
received the temporary accession of Van Leuven, while 
Goodale was a new student of mystic origin. As a 
result, Dartmouth took second place. 

PRACTICE WITH HARVARD. 

The first practice game was with Harvard, at Cam¬ 
bridge. The team was in no way a match for the 
crimson rushers, and a score of 48 to 0 resulted in two 
twenty-minute halves. Randall’s fine work was espe¬ 
cially noticeable. The men lined up as follows : Town¬ 
send (Gifford), r. e.; Dodge (Stone), r. t.; Carson, 
r. g.; M. B. Jones, c.; Wilson, 1. g.; E. E. Jones, 1.1. ; 
Curtis, 1. e.; Allen, q. b. (captain) ; Pollard (F. L. 
Smalley), 1. h.; Randall, r. h.; Ide (Webster), f. b. 

STAGG’s TEAM AT HANOVER. 

The first practice game on the campus was with 
Stagg’s Y. M. C. A. team of Springfield, Mass., result¬ 
ing in a score of 10 to 8 in Dartmouth’s favor. On 
the whole, the result was fairly encouraging. Randall 
showed that he was made of the right stuff for a player, 
and put up a capital game. Townsend’s tackling was 
noticeable, E. E. Jones played in fine form, and Web¬ 
ster, who was put in the second half, saved the game 
by kicking a difficult goal. The home team lined up 
as follows: Allen, 1. e.; E. E. Jones, 1. t.; Carson, 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


235 


1. g.; M. B. Jones, c.; J. Walter, r. g.; Stone, r. t.; 
Townsend, r. e.; J. W. H. Pollard, q. b.; F. L. Smal¬ 
ley, 1. h.; Randall, r. h.; and Ide, f. b. 

WESLEYAN DEFEATED. 

The eleven next met Wesleyan at Middletown, and 
showed great improvement in its team play. Wesleyan 
was apparently surprised at Dartmouth’s skill, and 
was obliged to console a defeat of 20 to 8. In this 
game Curtis played left end in place of Allen, who 
went to quarter-back, Pollard playing half in Smalley’s 
stead. 

PHILLIPS ANDOVER SHUT OUT. 

A rather loose game was played with Andover acad¬ 
emy eleven, October 14, at Andover, resulting in a vic¬ 
tory, 26 to 0. Dodge played a good game at tackle, 
and Allen proved to be a very lively man at end play¬ 
ing. Webster and Ide did the full-back work. 

A ROUGH GAME WITH B. A. A. 

A rough and unprofitable practice game was played 
with the Boston Athletic Association at Boston, Octo¬ 
ber 15, in which Dartmouth was defeated, 30 to 8. It 
is a hazardous experiment for a college eleven to go 
into a slugging match shortly before a championship 
game with a view to get practice in the technique of 
Rugby. Townsend played left end, Wilson right guard, 
Bell, Smalley, and Randall, behind the line. 


236 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


DARTMOUTH 24, WILLIAMS 12 

The championship game between Dartmouth and 
Williams November 4, at Hanover, was hotly contested 
and well played. It began with Williams in possession 
of the ball, but after a few short gains Dartmouth 
secured it on a fumble. Randall made 15 yards, Ide 
10, and Walker, Curtis, and Dodge aided in forcing it 
down to the 20-yard line, where a fumble gave it to 
Williams. The latter lost it on a kick, and Dartmouth, 
by a series of short rushes, carried it to Williams’s 10- 
yard line, but again lost it through fumbling. It was 
recovered, however, and Randall made the first touch¬ 
down, after ten minutes of play. Stone failed to kick 
a goal. Williams made 20 yards on the Y, and short 
gains were made by Towne and Draper. At the 15- 
yard line Dartmouth secured the ball on four downs. 
Ide made a run of 30 yards, Dodge gained 5, Ran¬ 
dall 10, Curtis 12, Townsend 3, Curtis 7, E. E. Jones 
5, Townsend 6, and Randall carried the ball over the 
line. Time, 10 minutes. Ide failed at try for goal. 
After making 2 yards on the V, and a gain of 3 yards 
by Draper, Towne sprinted 30 yards into Dartmouth’s 
territory. Ide advanced the ball 3 yards, and Draper 
scored the first touchdown for Williams. Time, 5 
minutes. Ide kicked a goal, and the score now stood 
8 to 6. Dartmouth worked the Y to advantage, but 
lost the ball on four downs, regaining it, however, on 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


237 


a kick. Randall, Ide, and Dodge made good gains, 
and Townsend made the third of Dartmouth’s touch¬ 
downs in 8 minutes. No goal. Score, 12 to 6. Wil¬ 
liams made 2 yards on her V, and the backs gained 
some ground, but soon lost the leather on four downs. 
Dartmouth worked her ends and halves to good advan¬ 
tage. Williams secured the ball on account of hold¬ 
ing, only to lose it again on four downs Good team 
work forced the play into Williams’s territory, but the 
advantage gained was lost through a fumble. The 
Massachusetts men now played a strong game, and 
steady gains by Towne and Draper enabled the latter 
to score a second touchdown for Williams. Time, 12 
minutes. A goal was kicked, and the score for the 
first half stood 12 to 12. 

In the second half both teams played to win, but 
Dartmouth was plainly superior in general team work. 
Dartmouth gained on the V, but lost the hall on four 
downs. Williams could make no progress, and four 
downs saw the ball again in Dartmouth’s hands. Some¬ 
body fumbled, however, and Towne was given oppor¬ 
tunity to distinguish himself by a beautiful run of 55 
yards, to Dartmouth’s 10-yard line. Fumbling gave 
the hall to Dartmouth, and the lost ground was recov¬ 
ered through gains around the ends by Curtis and 
Townsend. The ball now changed hands several times 
on downs, but was steadily forced into Williams’s terri¬ 
tory, Curtis and Townsend doing good work. After 


238 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


26 minutes, E. E. Jones made a touchdown, and Allen 
kicked the goal. Score, 18 to 12. Williams now for¬ 
feited the ball on four downs, and Dartmouth worked 
her ends and backs for 60 yards. At this point Gar¬ 
field succeeded Towne, who was injured. Williams 
secured the ball on downs and lost it on a kick. Dart¬ 
mouth now had little difficulty in forcing the play 
up to Williams’s line, and Townsend was sent over for 
last touchdown in 14 minutes. Goal was kicked. Score, 
24 to 12. 

The team work was excellent, the defensive play 
being of the highest order. Randall distinguished 
himself at half, and in Curtis and Townsend the ends 
were well guarded. The principal weak point seemed 
to be the inability to kick goals. The teams lined up 
as follows: 


Williams. 

Taylor 

Nelson 

Ogilvie 

Perkins }> 

Sawtelle 

Bruce 

Ennis 

Babbitt 

Draper ) 

Towne S 

Garfield ) 

Ide 


Rushers 


Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-back 


Dartmouth. 
' Townsend 
Stone 
Walker 
< M. B. Jones 
Carson 
E. E. Jones 
„ Curtis 
Allen 

I Randall 
Dodge 

Ide 


Referee, Mr. Miller of Harvard. Umpire, Mr. Wells of Har¬ 
vard. Time of halves, 45 minutes. 





FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


239 


A PRACTICE GAME WITH TUFTS. 

Tufts gave the Dartmouth men hope. The visitors 
had defeated Amherst only the week before, and now 
were defeated at Hanover by a score of 12 to 10. 
Pollard and Randall did good work behind the line, 
and Curtis and Townsend seemed to be playing credit¬ 
able games on the ends, which were considered the 
weakest points. 

AMHERST 30, DARTMOUTH 2. 

The deciding game in the championship series took 
place on Pratt field at Amherst Nov. 12. The 
grounds were free from snow, but a deep layer of 
mud made the field very slippery and wet. The 
game commenced promptly at 2 o’clock. Amherst, 
winning the kick-off, started with the usual V, but 
failed to gain. The next play advanced the hall 5 
yards. Van Leuven was then sent around the left 
end for 15 yards. Short rushes gained another 15 
yards, when Goodale made a brilliant run of 30 
yards around the right end. The hall was then well 
down in Dartmouth’s territory, and a touchdown looked 
imminent. A fine tackle by Townsend prevented a 
gain, but on the next three plays Amherst pushed the 
ball about 10 yards farther. Gould was then sent 
through the right tackle and scored the first touchdown. 
Goal; score, 6 to 0; time, 6 minutes. Dartmouth 


240 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


then had the ball and the lusty cheers from the side 
lines encouraged the team to do its best. By means 
of the V, Jones carried the ball some 15 yards. 
Two downs resulted in no gains, and the criss-cross 
was resorted to, but Pollard had no sooner secured the 
ball than he was tackled by Baldwin. As the requis¬ 
ite gain was not made, Amherst took the hall. 
Through good defensive play Dartmouth soon re. 
gained the leather. Short rushes by Pollard, Town¬ 
send, and Curtis, advanced the hall some 15 yards. 
Dartmouth fumbled and Amherst found the ball. 
Goodale made another long run of 35 yards. Short 
rushes by Gould and Baldwin with a 10-yards gain 
by Van Leuven again brought the ball well into 
Dartmouth territory. Pollard secured the leather on 
a fumble and Dartmouth commenced to make steady 
gains, but Amherst braced and held Dartmouth for 
four downs. Goodale, aided by the strong interference 
of Pratt, ran some 40 yards until he met Ide; a 
desperate tackle failed to stop him and the second 
touchdown was secured. Goal; score, 12 to 0; time, 
27 minutes. Dartmouth gained by the Y, but soon lost 
the ball on a fumble. Goodale then added to his record 
by a run of 55 yards, a touchdown only being pre¬ 
vented by the brilliant work of Ide, who showed his 
sprinting qualities by overtaking Goodale and downing 
him on Dartmouth’s 10-yard line. Amherst gained 5 
yards more, when Dartmouth braced and through fine 

















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FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


241 


defensive playing secured the ball on four downs, but 
failed in turn to advance the leather. Amherst re¬ 
gained it and sent Gould over the line for a touchdown. 
Pratt by means of a punt-out made the goal. Score, 18 
to 0. But little time remained of the first half, and 
Dartmouth tried her best to score, but only gained 
some twenty yards, when Amherst secured the ball on 
four downs, and rushed it steadily down the field. 
Time was called with the ball on Dartmouth’s 15-yard 
line. The first half clearly indicated that unless Dart¬ 
mouth took a decided brace the pennant would slip 
from her grasp. 

The second half was much like the first, short gains 
by Dartmouth and long runs by Amherst. In the first 
rush Curtis, who had played a plucky game, was in¬ 
jured so that he had to withdraw, Folsom taking his 
place. After a few plays by Dartmouth, Amherst 
secured the ball. Pratt tried a kick, sending the 
ball up the field for 30 yards. It was caught by Ide, 
who was immediately tackled by Baldwin. Dodge 
made steady gains, but the next plays resulting in 
no advance, Amherst secured the ball, and sent Good- 
ale for a spurt of 65 yards. He stopped under the 
goal posts. Goal; score, 24 to 0. Dartmouth held the 
ball only a short time, losing it on four downs. 
Successive gains by Van Leuven and Goodale of 15 
and 20 yards brought the ball down toDartmouth’s 15- 
yard line. Dartmouth now succeeded in regaining the 
16 


242 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


ball and rushed it steadily up the field, Folsom and 
Dodge doing good work while Ide by clever dodging 
made a pretty run of 30 yards. Steady 5-yard rushes 
brought the ball down to Amherst’s 5-yard line, and it 
looked like a touchdown for Dartmouth, but Amherst 
showed her rallying power by preventing further gains, 
finally capturing the ball when within 3 yards of the 
goal. Dartmouth exerted every muscle to hold Am¬ 
herst back, and succeeded so well that Amherst was 
forced to make a safety. This gave Dartmouth two 
points. From the 25-yard line Goodale made a run 
of 20 yards. He was finely tackled by Allen. In the 
next rush Gould was injured, and gave way to Ewing. 
Continual gains of 5 and 10 yards finally enabled Pratt 
to make a touchdown. He again punted out in front 
of the posts and made a goal. Score, 30 to 2. Dart¬ 
mouth once more tried the V, gaining 8 yards. Rushes 
by Folsom and Randall brought the ball to Amherst’s 
25-yard line, when time was called. 

The teams lined up as follows: 


Amherst. 


Dartmouth. 


Van Leuven, 
Nourse, 

Stone, 

Edgell, 

Haskell, 

Baldwin, 

Rosa, 

H. E. Pratt, 
Goodale, 

Gould (Ewing), 
G. Pratt. 


Right end 
Right tackle 
Right guard 
Centre 
Left guard 
Left tackle 
Left end 
Quarter-back 

Half-backs 

Full-backs 


(Folsom) Curtis 
E. E. Jones 
(Bowles) Carson 
M. Jones 
Walker 
Stone 
Townsend 
Allen 

Pollard (Dodge) 
Randall 
Ide 


Umpire, Mr. Bronson of Yale. Referee, Mr. Smith of Harvard’ 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


243 


FIRST SEASON OF THE NEW ERA. 

Dartmouth opened the season of 1893 with all the 
signs hopeful. Dwight Hall ’94 was tireless in his de¬ 
votion to the needs of the team and consulted the fac¬ 
ulty and alumni committee at every point. E. E. 
Jones, D. M. C., who proved himself such a valuable 
man at tackle the year before, was captain, and Wil¬ 
liam Norton, Dartmouth ex-’91, substitute end on the 
Yale team of ’92, was secured as coach. The new ma¬ 
terial, moreover, was still more promising. Geo. A. 
Huff, University of Illinois ’93, who played centre 
rush on that team entered the medical college and be¬ 
gan to train for guard, starting at a weight of 240 lbs. 
C. S. Little, Dartmouth ’91, also entered the same de¬ 
partment. Dodge ’95, Folsom ’95, Randall ’96, M. 
Jones ’94, Townsend ’94, Curtis ’94, and Pollard ’95, 
of the previous year’s team, were on hand together with 
some good candidates in ’97. 

HARVARD 16, DARTMOUTH 0. 

The first game of the season was played with Har¬ 
vard at Cambridge, and the result made every lover of 
the “green” to rejoice. In the first half, Harvard 
scored only one touchdown and that at the end of 17 
minutes. Dartmouth took the ball and gained ten 
yards on the opening wedge. Then Dodge and Ran¬ 
dall pounded away at the centre until the “ crimson ” 


244 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


line was forced back to her 10-yard line amid the 
wild applause of the Dartmouth contingent on the side 
lines. The Boston Journal said,—“It was a trying 
moment and Bert Waters’s appeals to his men were 
pathetic in their earnestness; a touchdown seemed in¬ 
evitable. Again Dodge took the ball, and the Dart¬ 
mouth contingent yelled gleefully on the 3-yard 
gain which followed. Another yard and it was third 
down on Harvard’s 6-yard line. The coachers’ faces 
wore a pained expression, but presently brightened.” 
The next play was a fumble due to Harvard’s quarter 
breaking through on Pollard. Just before this play 
Little used up Warren who was carried from the field. 
Harvard worked hard for her touchdown, losing and 
regaining the ball two or three times before scoring. 
In the second half, Harvard tried the end plays for 
good gains and added 12 points to her credit. Dart¬ 
mouth could do but little at that kind of play, making 
all her gains by hammering away at a tackle. This was 
undoubtedly the best game Dartmouth ever put up 
against Harvard. 






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The elevens lined up as follows 


Harvard. 

Emmons, 1. e. 

Beals, 1.1. 

Warren (Acton) (Lambeer), 1. g, 


Lewis, 

Mackie, r. g. 
Johnson, r. t. 
Stevenson, r. e. 
Fairchild, 
Gray, 1. h. b. 
Waters, r. h. b. 
Brewer, 


Dartmouth. 
r. e., (F. L. Smalley) Curtis 


r. t., Townsend 
r. g., Little 
M. B. Jones 
1. g., Huff 
1.1., E. E. Jones 
1. e., Folsom 
Pollard 
r. h. b., Randall 
1. h. b., Dodge 
Carleton 


Centre 


Quarter-back 


Full-back 


Touchdowns, Harvard, Waters (2), Gray. Safety, Pollard. 
Goal, Brewer. Attendance, 2,000. Score, 16 to 0. Harvard won. 
Umpire, Wm. Norton of Yale. Referee, Mr. Brooks of Harvard. 


DARTMOUTH 6, HARVARD 6 


A foot-ball eleven composed of strong candidates for 
the Harvard Varsity, under the name of second eleven, 
were Dartmouth’s first opponents on the alumni ath¬ 
letic field. The game was called immediately after the 
Opening Services of the field, Oct. 4. The home team 
was in a badly crippled condition. Little was unable 
to play. Randall made only a few rushes, and had to 
retire on account of a lame knee. Captain Jones re¬ 
ceived a neck injury early in the game and had to re¬ 
tire, and Huff was disabled before the close. In spite 
of these disadvantages the game was exciting and 
Dartmouth clearly outplayed her opponents, although 
the score was 6 to 6 at the finish. The work of Carle- 
ton and Dodge excelled. 

Harvard won the toss and started off with a V, 
making 6 yards, then they were held for four downs 


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and Dartmouth took the ball. Short rushes were made 
by Dodge, Jones, and Randall, when the ball was given 
to Harvard on the fourth down. Lovering made a 
gain of 15 yards and Hoag dove through the centre 
for 4 yards more; another gain of 3 yards was made, 
and they were held for four downs. By successive 
rushes the ball was carried well up towards Harvard’s 
goal line. The ball was lost on a fumble and kicked 
out of danger. During the rest of the half, the two 
elevens struggled back and forth in the middle of the 
field. When time was called the ball was in Har¬ 
vard’s territory. 

SECOND HALF. 

Dartmouth made 5 yards on the V ; Hotchkiss and 
Dodge made gains of 6 and 4 yards respectively, when 
Carleton ran around Harvard’s left end and made 
a touchdown; he kicked a goal, and the score was 
6 to 0. 

Harvard made 6 yards on the Y, and lost the ball 
on the fourth down. Dartmouth could not make her 
gains. Harvard carried the ball up the field, and Beale 
made a touchdown. Hoag kicked a goal, and the 
score was 6 to 6. 

Dartmouth took the ball and by successive rushes 
carried it to Harvard’s goal line and lost it on four 
downs. Beale and Lovering rushed the ball out to the 
40-yard line when it was lost on a fumble; when 


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time was called the ball was on Harvard’s 15-yard 
line. The teams were made up as follows: 


Dartmouth. 


Harvard. 


McCornack, 1. e. 

E. E. Jones (Mason), 1.1. 

Huff (Carson), 1. g. 

M. B. Jones, Centre 

Marshall, r. g. 

Townsend, r. t. 

Folsom, r. e. 

Pollard, Quarter-back 

Dodge, 1. h. b. 

Randall (Hotchkiss), r. h. b. 

Carleton, Full-back 


r. e., Barton 
r. t., Beals 
r. g., Wilson 
Lee 

1. g., Hallowell 
1.1., Bond 
1. e., Wrightington 
Foster 
r. h. b., Beale 
1. h. b., Lovering 
Hoag 


Umpire, H. C. Cox of Harvard. Referee, F. W. Lakeman, 
Dartmouth ’92. 


DARTMOUTH 16, TRINITY 6. 


The next game was on October 13, at Hartford, 
resulting in a victory, 16 to 6, Trinity’s score being 
due to a “ fluke.” The whole time played was only 
thirty minutes, and Trinity was so weak that substi¬ 
tutes were put in, in the second half. Huff and Little, 
the best guards, were recovering from injuries and did 
not play. Dodge, E. E. Jones, Folsom, and Smalley 
excelled. The teams were : 


Dartmouth. 
Folsom, 1. e. 
F. Jones, 1.1. 
Bowles, 1. g. 
E.Jones 
Wilson, ) 
Marshall, ) 
Mason, ) 
Ford, i 

Townsend, 
Curtis, ) 

Pollard, 
Smalley, r. h. 
Dodge, 1. h. b. 
Carleton, 1 
Hotchkiss, | 




Trinity. 


Centre 

r. e., Coggeshall 
r. t., Buell 
r. g., Reiland 
McGann 

r. g. 


1. g., Penrose 

r. t. 


1.1., Reese 

r. e. 


1. e., Hendrick 

b., 

Quarter-back 

Full-backs 

Greenley 
1. h. b., F. Edgerton 
r. h. b., Langford 
( Cogswell 
( J. Edgerton 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Score: Dartmouth 15, Trinity 5. Touchdowns, Dodge 2, Carle- 
ton, F. Edgerton. Goals from touchdown, Carleton, Hotchkiss, 
F. Edgerton. Umpire, Mr. Allen, Yale. Referee, Mr. Robinson, 
Yale. Time, 15 minute halves. 


YALE 28, DARTMOUTH 0. 

The day following the Trinity game Dartmouth met 
Yale at New Haven and played a great game, no ade¬ 
quate idea being obtained from the simple score. Yale 
had to work hard and persistently for every inch she 
made. Dartmouth made her five yards with surprising 
frequency. One of the three goals in the first half was 
won by Hinkey, who got the ballon a ‘‘fluke ” and ran 
half the length of the field. In the second half Dart¬ 
mouth evinced even greater strength, kept the oppo¬ 
nents from scoring only twice, held the ball in Yale’s 
territory two-thirds of the time, and, had the referee 
been able to see her gains correctly and hear her 
“ downs ” distinctly, she would certainly have scored. 
The ball was steadily taken to Yale’s 10-yard, and then 
on a questionable decision of the referee, Carleton was 
obliged to try for a goal from the field which he missed. 
Bowles, E. E. Jones, Carleton, and Dodge did Dart¬ 
mouth’s best work. M. B. Jones played a crack game 
at centre, Stillman being unable to stand against him. 
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Yale. 

Hinkey, ) 
Cochrane, f 1. e. 
Treadway, ) 
Messier, 1.1. 
McCrea, 1. g., 
Stillman, ) 

Beard, \ 

Hickok, r. g., 
Murphy, r. t., 
Greenway, r. e., 
Morris, ) 

Lilly, I 

Eaton, ) „ , , 

Hall, | r - h - b * 

Armstrong, 1. h. b M 
Thorne, 


Centre 


Quarter-back 


Full-back 


Dartmouth. 
r. e., Townsend 

r. t., Abbott 
r. g., Wilson 

M.Jones 

1. g., Bowles 
1.1., E. Jones 
1. e., Folsom 

Pollard 

1. h. b., Dodge 

r. h. b., Smalley 
Carleton 


Score: Yale 28, Dartmouth 0. Touchdowns, Armstrong 1, 
Thorne 1, Hinkey 1, Hall 2. Goals, Armstrong 4. Referee, Mr. 
Lyman, Yale. Umpire, Mr. Thornburgh, Dartmouth. Time, 20 
minute halves. 


HARVARD 36, DARTMOUTH 0. 

Dartmouth played a second game with Harvard, at* 
Cambridge, October 21, resulting 36 to 0 to the crim¬ 
son’s credit. The reason for a second game was 
because Harvard regarded Dartmouth as the strongest 
team to give her practice. Much importance was 
placed upon the game, and Harvard put in her best 
men, who worked hard to score as many points as did 
her dreaded rival, Yale, only a week previous. In the 
first half Harvard’s line was well nigh invincible and 
allowed five yards not once. In spite of this fact it was 
a hot game, and Harvard could score only 18 points in 
30 minutes. In the second half Dartmouth made some 
good gains through Parker by Dodge, Smalley, and 
Carleton. Abbott and Folsom were ever on the alert 
at tackling. The result of the game was to encourage 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Harvard, in that she excelled Yale’s score, and, on the 
other hand, to warn Dartmouth that her interference 
was not up to championship form, that her ends were 
weak, and that she must get down to solid work to tri¬ 
umph over Amherst and Williams, although they had 
thus far made inferior records. 


Harvard. 


Dartmouth. 


Stevenson, 


Whittren, 
Manahan, 1.1. 
Acton, ) i 
Parker, $ ' 
Lewis, 

Mackie, r. g. 
Newell, r. t. 


r. e. 


Emmons, 1. e. 
Fairchild, > 
Foster, { 

Waters, ] 
Dunlop, I 
Clarke, f 
Gray, J 

Corbett, 


1. e., Folsom 
r. g., Abbott 
r. g., Little 

Centre M. Jones 

1. g., Bowles 
i + \ E. Jones 
} Stone 

r. e., McCornack 
Quarter-back Pollard 


Half-backs 


Smalley 

Dodge 


Full-back 


Carleton 


Score, Harvard 36. Touchdowns, Waters 2, Dunlop, Clarke 2, 
Gray. Goals from touchdowns, Fairchild 3, Corbett 3. Umpire, 
Hallowell. Referee, Fassett. Time, 1 hour. Attendance, 2,200. 


A GREAT TRIUMPH. 

The first championship game of the season of ’93 
was against Williams at Williamstown, Nov. 4, and 
resulted in a great triumph for the “ green ” by a score 
of 20 to 0. Although Dartmouth’s record with other 
colleges had been fully as good as Williams’s, and she 
had been working with every nerve in preparation for 
this critical game, nevertheless, the anxiety of the Han¬ 
over men was intense as the appointed time approached. 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


251 


Williams’s men realized that they had a strong team— 
one which had tied Cornell—yet they were not confi¬ 
dent. Again, Williams was at home, in the proverbial 
Williams mud ; and that day it was snowy and rainy 
and this slimy, clayey porridge was about three inches 
deep. This was in Williams’s favor, first, because she 
was accustomed to it in practice, and secondly because 
her men, being of lighter weight, were fleeter-footed on 
such a ground. The Dartmouth eleven selected for 
this game was undoubtedly the best that ever repre¬ 
sented the college, and the condition each man was in 
is told by the fact that not a single substitute was called 
upon to do service. These are the men : 


Names. 

Position. 

Age. 

Stripped Weight. 

F. G. Folsom 

Left end 

20 

155 

E. E. Jones 

Left tackle 

23 

170 

G. A. Huff 

Left guard 

21 

214 

M. B. Jones 

Centre 

22 

209 

F. M. Bowles 

Right guard 

21 

207 

C. S. Little 

Right tackle 

24 

167 

W. E. McCornack 

Right end 

18 

165 

J. A. Townsend 

Quarter-back 

20 

143 

F. P. Dodge 

R. J. Hotchkiss 

Left-half 

21 

176 

Right-half 

Full-back 

20 

148 

E. L. Carleton 

25 

170 

Average, 


21.3 

175 


Had it not been for injuries to one or two men the 
team might have been slightly modified if not im¬ 
proved. The Berkshire men won the toss and started 
off with the wedge, but they struck hard against Dart¬ 
mouth’s stone-wall centre and stopped at 8 yards. Ide 
fumbled; the Dartmouth men were on him. Jeffrey 




252 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


went 7 yards around left end; Williams was forced 
into fumbling, and the ball was Dartmouth’s. Dodge, 
Carlton, and Hotchkiss were sent through the line for 
short gains each. Four yards were lost on a fumble, 
and Williams had the ball, but lost it immediately. 
Dodge made 4 yards, Hotchkiss 6, and, again, a 
fumble lost the ball. The leather was then upon a 
high and comparatively clean spot on Williams’s 
20-yard line, whence, obtaining a good footing, the 
Berkshire men sailed down around Dartmouth’s right 
end for 23 yards, being brought to bay by Little. 
Dartmouth made a stand and secured the ball on four 
downs, but was obliged to punt. Draper fumbled, 
and the ball was again in Dartmouth’s hands. By a 
series of short rushes she carried the leather 20 yards 
into the opponent’s territory, and then failed to make 
her distance. Williams fumbled and punted. Dart¬ 
mouth made 10 yards, and again stopped for four 
downs. Draper was forced to kick, Dartmouth’s line 
men were tearing down on him so terrifically that he 
made a hurried attempt and Dartmouth got the ball 
on Williams’s 20-yard line. Williams held well, and 
recovered the ball in season to save a touchdown. 
During the remainder of the half the ball went back 
and forth, neither side making any good gains, and 
time was called with the ball in Williams’s territory 
where it had been during 40 minutes of play. 

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253 


while Williams was jubilant and hoped to tie the 
game. Twenty-two steaming, dripping bodies of mud 
jogged off the field to their quarters where the 10 min¬ 
utes respite was spent in clearing the ooze from their 
eyes and ears. It is said that Coach Moyle delivered 
a short lecture in that time that bore fruitage in the 
second half. 

Dartmouth opened the last half with the flying 
wedge which worked beautifully, and, were it not for 
a stumble, bid fair to make the field. As it was 18 
yards were gained, and the whole team was stimulated 
to the keenest action. The halves dove through the line 
for good gains and landed the ball on Williams’s 20- 
yard line where it was lost on a fumble. Williams 
punted. Dartmouth then drove down the field with a 
vengeance by substantial gains through the centre. 
The ball was on the 5-yard line, Williams braced. 
Another rush, and it was two yards nearer. Williams 
made a last desperate stand, but Dodge ploughed 
through, and the “ Wah-hoo-wah ” rang. Carleton 
kicked a goal. Williams made 5 yards on the wedge 
and lost by four downs. By remarkable interference 
Hotchkiss sailed around right end for 20 yards. 
Short rushes carried it to Williams’s 10-yard line. 
Williams held for four downs. Williams went ahead 
10 yards, lost 3 on a fumble, and Dartmouth again 
had the ball which she forced over the line by pretty 
playing through the tackles. No goal. Williams 


254 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


made 8 yards with the wedge. Walsh was injured 
and Bruce substituted. Dartmouth soon held them 
for four downs and advanced by short rushes about 30 
yards when a wedge was formed. Williams’s line fell 
down to stop it, but Dodge jumped the bodies, dodged 
the backs, and ran 40 yards for a touchdown with 
Williams’s men in hot pursuit. Carlton kicked a diffi¬ 
cult goal. Williams tried the wedge again with little 
gain, but could not keep the ball. Dartmouth played 
with wonderful snap for so near the end of the game. 
Dodge, Carleton, Hotchkiss, and the tackles dove 
through the Williams line for good gains, then came 
a great run by Hotchkiss who circled the right end for 
30 yards, aided by beautiful interference. It was on 
the 10-yard line, but soon went over and the scoring 
was done. No goal. In the few remaining minutes 
Williams had the ball in Dartmouth’s territory, but at 
no time in the game did it go nearer than the 35-yard 
line. Dartmouth men yelled themselves hoarse, and 
Williams took the defeat resignedly. The Williams 
team was: Downer (De Groat), 1. e.; Walsh, 1. t. ; 
Sawtelle, r. g.; Perkins, c.; Ogilvie, 1. g.; Townsend, 
1. t.; Taylor, 1. e.; Ide, q. b.; Hickey and Jeffrey, h. 
sb.; Draper, f. b. 

It would be hard to divide honors among the Dart¬ 
mouth men in this game. Every man did his duty. 
M. Jones used his man up almost entirely, and broke 
through and tacked finely. Little, who was pitted 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


255 


against Townsend, said to be the best tackle in 
the country, did excellent work. Although a little 
outplayed at the beginning, he tuckered his man, 
and played all around him in the second half. 
Huff and Bowles were towers of strength at the cen¬ 
tre. McCornack handled the wet ball with surprising 
accuracy. Dodge, Carlton, and Hotchkiss were 
“ stars ” of about the same magnitude. Townsend did 
well at his end, and Folsom’s work was unerring. 
Captain Jones played his usual strong and scientific 
game. 

Score, Dartmouth, 20. Touchdowns, Dodge, 3; 
Hotchkiss. Goals, Carleton, 2. Time, two 45-min¬ 
ute halves. Referee, Mr. Smith of Harvard. Um¬ 
pires, first half, Upton of Harvard; second half, 
Moyle of Yale. 

williams’s greeting. 

Any report of this game would be inadequate which 
did not mention the royal reception tendered the Dart¬ 
mouth men as they drove into Williamstown the night 
before. The first sounds which greeted the ears of the 
Dartmouth boys as they approached Taconic Inn at a 
distance, was a grand chorus of 300 voices singing that 
sweet melody, ‘‘Shall Old Acquaintance be Forgot,” 
and then the “ Rah! Rah ! Rah! Yums! Yums ! 
Yums ! Williams,—Dartmouth,” was heard. As they 
came nearer, strange voices were yelling the “ Wah— 


256 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


hoo—wah,” and hats and handkerchiefs were waved in 
air, as if at the approach of some royal chieftain. But 
it was simply an appreciation of Dartmouth’s friend¬ 
ship, and the Hanover men returned it as best they 
could. It is hoped that this good feeling may he per¬ 
petuated, and that Williams men will always be treated 
as friends, though rivals, in Hanover. 


DARTMOUTH DEFEATED TUFTS. 


Dartmouth defeated Tufts at Hanover, Nov. 8. The 
eleven was saving itself for the Amherst game, and al¬ 
lowed the visitors to score. Pollard was played at half, 
in place of Hotchkiss. The teams lined up as follows : 


Dartmouth. 
Townsend 
E. E. Jones 
Huff 

M. B. Jones '> 

Bowles 

Little 

Folsom 

McCornack 

Dodge ) 

Pollard ) 

Carleton 


Rushers 

Quarter-back 

Half-backs 


Tufts. 

' Dunham 
Burns 
Healey 
Whitney 
Russell 
Malle tte 
. Stroud 
Clarke 
Craig 
Foss 
Smith 
Armstrong 
Ward 


Score, Dartmouth 14, Tufts 4. Touchdowns, Dodge, E. Jones, 
Little, Armstrong. Goal from touchdown, Carleton. Umpire, 
Mr. Haskell, of Yale. Referee, A. J. Ranney, of Dartmouth. 
Time lh. Attendance, 800. 


Full-backs 








Edwin 


Emery Jones, D. M. C. 



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FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


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THE “ GREEN ” VICTORIOUS ; DARTMOUTH’S FOOT-BALL 
PRESTIGE STILL MAINTAINED. 

With an unprecedented force of 200 men, Amherst 
came to Hanover, Nov. 11, 1893, to shout her cham¬ 
pions of the previous year to another victory. The 
game was to decide the championship in the New Eng¬ 
land league, and had created more general interest 
than any athletic contest ever witnessed in classical old 
Hanover. Dartmouth had acquitted herself nobly in 
every previous game of the season, making Harvard 
and Yale work hard for their meagre laurels, and gain¬ 
ing easy victories over the minor teams. Williams had 
been shut out in a hard fought game. Dartmouth’s 
new era in athletics was at stake, and every Dartmouth 
man was nervous over the outcome. A mass meeting 
of professors, alumni, and students crowded the old 
chapel at the noon hour, just before the game, to arouse 
the last mite of enthusiasm, and arrange for systematic 
yelling. Addresses were made by Professors J. K. 
Lord, Emerson, Richardson, Worthen, G. D. Lord, 
H. A. Hitchcock, E. J. Bartlett, and by Messrs. Bur¬ 
roughs and J. H. Bartlett, ’94. It was not long, how¬ 
ever, before the anxious supporters of the “ green ” 
were jubilant. As soon as the rivals crashed together 
in the first plays it was evident that 

AMHERST WAS OUTCLASSED, 
and at 5 o’clock the Dartmouth throng were singing 
victory airs. 


258 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Amherst was wofully beaten to the tune of 34 to 0. 
Not once in the entire game of 90 minutes was the 
Dartmouth goal in clanger. By regular line bucking, 
or end plays, Amherst never could have scored if she 
had been allowed to keep the ball all the time, for she 
lost about as often and about as much as she gained. 
Only about four times in the whole game did she score 
first downs without punting. Her query previous to 
the game, as to whether her skill would overcome 
“ Dartmouth brawn,” was made ridiculous ; for not 
once did she show a sign of team work, and lost more 
than she gained at end plays. The whole story is told 
in short, by saying that her line could not hold the 
Dartmouth line long enough to get the ball into play. 
In strength and science as well, Amherst was far in¬ 
ferior. Dartmouth pushed her up and down the field 
almost at will, amid the vociferous yells of the sup¬ 
porters of the “ green.” The excellent work of Coach 
Moyle, of Yale, was everywhere apparent. The fly¬ 
ing wedge, tried by Dartmouth for the first time, 
ploughed through Amherst for over 20 yards. The 
rotating wedge made sure gains. A new play, original 
with Mr. Moyle, kept Amherst men guessing. It was 
like this: The ends, halves, and full-back form a 
Y, about 10 yards back of the line, and charge on the 
enemy with terrific speed. The ball is snapped and 
passed to a man in the rear of the V, just as it strikes 
the opposing line. It is almost impossible to stop it 


FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


259 


without some gain and in one instance it netted over 
20 yards through Amherst’s centre. Another trick 
which made from 10 to 15 yards when tried : The ball 
was snapped, and the quarter held it for the full-back 
to buck the centre. The full-back dove through the 
centre without the ball, and was vigorously tackled. 
Meanwhile one of the ends had taken the ball, and was 
circling the other end. Every man on the team, except 
the centre, had some play in which he rushed the ball. 
It was the most scientific game ever seen in the New 
England league. 

As to individual playing, it would be hard to make 
distinctions. Every man did his duty. Lakeman, at 
left end, played his first game, and was a star. He 
turned the Amherst men in for Captain Jones to tackle, 
every time, and got into every play. Folsom, on the 
other end, had Rosa to meet. It was a contest between 
the best, and neither could gain much on the other, al¬ 
though Dartmouth’s fine interference made short gains 
even around that end. Carleton worked phenomenally 
in the wedge. McCornack did not fumble, and tackled 
like a fiend. Dodge and Hotchkiss played hard and 
brilliantly. C. S. Little was the same old-timer with 
all the modern improvements. He played every minute 
for all there was in him. There are few, if any, better 
tackles playing, and yet it would be hard to say 
whether he were better than Captain Jones at left 
tackle. The centre was a stone wall for strength. 



260 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


M. B. Jones, Huff, and Bowles cannot be duplicated 
more than once or twice, if at all, in the college world. 
In short, the eleven was 

A TEAM OF STARS. 

Upton, of Harvard, who umpired, asserted that with 
the same coaching and individual attention as Harvard 
or Yale they would he equally as strong. The-follow¬ 
ing shows how the great victory was won: 

Amherst won the toss, and took the hall. It was 
fumbled on the kick-off, and no gain was made. 
Amherst kicked, and it was Dartmouth’s hall. Hotch¬ 
kiss made a small gain around Ford ; Carleton ploughed 
through the centre for 5 yards; Jones added 2; 
Dodge was sent through the tackles for 5 yards twice 
in succession. Rosa made a tine tackle on an end 
play, stopping it for no gain. Hotchkiss slipped by 
Ford, however, for 20 yards, but E. Jones’s fumble lost 
the ball. Two attempts by Amherst to advance the 
ball were made with repeated loss. Deering’s punt 
was well stopped by M. Jones, who fell on the ball on 
Amherst’s 5-yard line. Dodge was sent through 
tackle for a touchdown in five minutes. Goal; Dart¬ 
mouth 6, Amherst 0. The Amherst wedge gained 
but 6 yards, and on the third down she was forced 
to kick. The ball rolled over the line for a touch- 
back. From the 25-yard line Carleton and Little 
were sent for 3 yards each. Bad fumbling forced 










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FOOT-BALL AT DARTMOUTH. 


261 


a kick, and Carleton punted poorly, Amherst securing 
the ball on the 35-yard line. A loss of 5 yards and 
a similar gain balanced accounts, and then a fake kick 
was tried, which failed to yield the requisite distance, 
and Dartmouth took the ball. Dodge and Jones 
made small but steady gains. Hotchkiss sprinted 
around the end for 10 yards. Jones, Hotchkiss, 

LITTLE, AND DODGE 

dove through the line for 3, 5, and 7 yards at a time, 
but Amherst secured the ball for off-side play. Deer- 
ing punted to Carleton. Hotchkiss skirted the end for 
25 yards. Dodge found a hole in the line for 10, and 
Amherst secured the ball on a fumble. No gains 
could be made, though the ends and line were attacked 
in turn. Hotchkiss caught Deering’s punt and made 
5 yards. Jones found a hole for 8 yards. Hotchkiss 
made 10 around the end, but dropped the ball. Am¬ 
herst gained 4 yards, only to lose it on Folsom’s 
tackle behind the line. Dartmouth stopped Amherst’s 
kick, but Amherst kept the ball. Good ale gained 10 
yards on a fake kick but Lakeman tackled Barnes for 
a 5-yard loss. Hotchkiss fumbled a kick badly and 
Amherst secured the ball, making a substantial gain. 
Three downs and no gain forced a kick, and Dart¬ 
mouth got the ball. Carleton gained 3 yards, Dodge 
4, Hotchkiss 10, and then Amherst got the ball on 
downs. Dartmouth forced a kick, and the ball was 


262 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Dartmouth’s on her 25-yard line. Carleton made 5 
yards through Stone, Hotchkiss 5 more on an end 
play, the revolving wedge netted 5, and mass plays 
on the tackles 10 more. A trick play netted 15 
yards, and the ball was on Amherst’s 35-yard line. 
Tyler, who made a pretty tackle, was hurt, but soon 
resumed play. Another trick play was executed, 
Lakeman carrying the ball 20 yards before being 
downed. Carleton added 5 yards, Dodge 3, Carleton 
2. A mistake in signals resulted in a slight loss, but 
Carleton was then sent over the line for a touchdown, 
wliich was followed by a goal. Score, 12 to 0. 

Amherst opened with a 10 -yard gain, but was forced 
to kick. Carleton gained 4 yards, Folsom 15, Hotch¬ 
kiss 8, Dodge 2, Jones 5, Little 5, and then Dartmouth 
was held to four downs. Carleton was injured, but 
soon went on with the game. Jones tackled Barnes 
for a loss, and then on a fake kick Goodale made 15 
yards. Amherst then was forced to kick, and Carle¬ 
ton was well tackled by Rosa. Hotchkiss made 5 
yards and Folsom 10. Rosa’s end was tried, but for 
no gain. Carleton and Jones made 8 yards each 
through the line, and Dodge found a hole between 
Haskell and Tyler for 10 yards more. Carleton was 
sent around the end for 5 yards and the centre was 
worked for small gains. Hotchkiss then made a 
touchdown, after a 15-yard run around the end. Goal. 
Time, 15 minutes; score, 18 to 0. 


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The Amherst Y made little gain; Haskell bucked 
the centre for a yard, and offside play by Dartmouth 
gave 5 yards. Goodale was tackled behind the line 
with a loss of 5 yards, and Amherst kicked to Dart¬ 
mouth’s 15-yard line. Dodge, Carleton, Jones, and 
Little made gains through the line. 

HOTCHKISS ADDED TWENTY-FIVE 

around the end. The revolving wedge was used to 
good effect, and the hall was on Amherst territory. 
Short gains forced it to Amherst’s 30-yard line, where 
time was called. 

In the second half, Carleton made 25 yards in the 
flying wedge and a new trick of Coach Moyle’s. A 
flying wedge in the tackle from behind the line netted 
10 more. Jones made 5 yards through Tyler, but 
Amherst braced, and got the ball on downs. The vis¬ 
itors were forced to kick, and Haskell secured the ball 
on a fumble. Folsom and E. Jones tackled hard 
behind the line, but on the kick Amherst again secured 
the ball on a muff by Hotchkiss. Amherst could not 
gain, and Hotchkiss caught the ball on Dartmouth’s 
10-yard line. Dartmouth kicked on the first down, 
and Deering was well tackled by McCornack. Am¬ 
herst was forced to kick. Carleton gained through 
the centre, hut a fumble gave Amherst the ball. 
Barnes made 8 yards. Bowles tackled back of the 
line for no gain on a fake kick, and it was Dart- 


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mouth’s ball. Tyler downed Carleton after a 3-yard 
gain. Moyle’s wedge gained 10 yards, and again 
yielded 5 yards. Rosa tackled finely, and Haskell 
held well in the centre. Four downs and Amherst’s 
ball, but she could not gain. Dodge and Carleton 
went through the line for 12 and 15 yards. 

CARLETON BUCKED THE CENTRE 

again for 15 yards, and Dodge was jammed over for a 
touchdown. Goal. Amherst could not gain, and 
punted. Successive rushes by Dodge and Folsom, 
together with a gain of 25 yards on Moyle’s small 
wedge, put the ball on the 10-yard line, where it was 
lost on a fumble. Fake kick tricks were successfully 
worked. Dartmouth got the ball on off-side play, but 
immediately lost it on a fumble. McCornack tackled 
fiercely, and Lakeman followed suit. Carleton and 
Hotchkiss made fine gains and Hotchkiss was pushed 
across. Goal. Score, 30 to 0. 

Goodale made 15 yards in the V, but Amherst had 
to kick. ' The ball then went into Amherst territory, 
but was lost on the 10-yard line for holding. Amherst 
had to kick, but Dartmouth lost the ball by a fumble 
to Deering who had a clear field, and covered 35 
yards before Dodge pulled him down. Kicks were 
exchanged, and by short, steady rushes Dartmouth put 
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a minute remained, and time was soon called with the 
ball in the centre of the field. 


Dartmouth. 
Lakeman, 1. e. 
E. E. Jones,1.1. 
Huff, 1. g. 

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Bowles, r. g. 
Little, r. t. 
Folsom, r. e. 
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Carleton 


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r. e., Russell (Ford) 
r. t., Blagden 
r. g., Stone 
Kimball 
1. g., Haskell 
1.1., Tyler 
1. e., Rosa 
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Score: Dartmouths, 34; Amhersts, 0. Touch-downs—Dodge, 
2; Carleton, Hotchkiss, 2; Little. Goals from touch-downs— 
Carleton, 5. Umpire—Upton, of Harvard. Referee—Beals, of 
Harvard. Time, 1 hour, 30 min. 


Not a little of the success of the season was due to 
the untiring and well-advised efforts of Manager 
Dwight Hall, and to the hard work of Captain E. E. 
Jones. 


TENNIS AT DARTMOUTH. 


Jpr FTER long agitation, and at a late day in the 
history of the game, a Lawn Tennis Associa¬ 
tion was organized at Dartmouth in the spring of 
1884, with these officers: President, Tower ’84; vice 
president, Howland ’84; secretary, Goodenow ’85; 
treasurer, Foster ’85 ; directors, Sargent ’84, Hubbard 
’85, French ’86, Howland ’87. A tournament was 
arranged and successfully carried out, in which 

F. H. HOWLAND WON THE SINGLES 

and Aiken ’87 and Foster ’85, the doubles. The fol¬ 
lowing year E. A. Kimball ’85 was the president of 
the association. No tournament was held in the fall. 
A large number of entries, and good playing, made the 
spring tournament of ’85 interesting. Kimball ’85 
and Brown ’86 defeated Howland and Aiken in the 
finals of the doubles, and won medals. Kimball ’85 
won the singles; Howland ’87, second. 

Fowler ’86 was elected president of the association 
for 1885-’86. A tournament was held in the fall in 
which chosen representatives from each class con¬ 
tested. The singles resulted; Fairbanks ’88 vs. Blair 
’89, 6-0, 6-8; Howland vs. Brown ’86, 6-2, 6-4; 



H. O. Aiken ’87. 

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Howland vs. Fairbanks, 6-0, 6-0; Blair vs. Brown, 
6-4, 2-6 ; Howland vs. Blair, 6-2, 9-7; Brown vs. 
Fairbanks, 6-1, 1-6. Howland, therefore, won, with 
Blair second. In the spring of ’86, Aiken won the 
first prize in singles, a gold medal, defeating Brown, 
6-2, 4-6, 7-5. Brown won a silver medal. How¬ 
land and Aiken won the doubles, defeating Kelley and 
Philbrick ’88, 6—2, 6-1. Gold medals were given in 
doubles, also. 

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. 

In the spring of 1886 a state tournament was held 
at Manchester, N. H., and Aiken and Howland, who 
were the Dartmouth champions, took upon themselves 
the responsibility of representing the college in this 
series of contests. In the finals they were pitted 
against Dickey, Princeton, ’85, once of Dartmouth ’85, 
and Burpee. After a close and exciting contest the 
Dartmouth pair were victorious, thus becoming state 
champions, and winning silver cups. Dickey won the 
singles. Aiken and Howland each reached the semi¬ 
finals, but were so exhausted from previous exertions 
and lack of sleep that they did not play them. 

Of the tennis at this period, F. H. Howland writes : 
“Our tournaments were all played on a grass court 
about 30 or 40 yards from the fence, opposite the 
National Bank. The rackets used were of all shapes 
and sizes and weights for the first two years, and the 


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stringing very inferior to that used later. None of 
the ‘ strokes ’ were then in use at Hanover, and the 
player depended almost always upon swift placing, 
though the game in that respect was much inferior to 
the game now played. ‘ Lobbing ’ was not used as a 
method of play. The service was overhand and 
quite speedy. In the attempt to get speed, ‘ faults ’ 
were numerous.” 

During the school year of 1886-’87, there was no 
tennis tournament. 

BLAIR CHAMPION. 

In the spring of 1888 a very successful tournament 
was held, and showed that the game was becoming an 
established phase of college life. There were 12 
entries for the singles. Hitchcock, Hilton, and Blair 
were the men who survived to the semi-finals. Blair 
beat Hitchcock, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4; Blair won the 
championship by defeating Hilton, 1-6, 6-2, 6-2, 7-5. 
Hitchcock held second place. In the finals of the 
doubles. Blair and Hitchcock, representing ’89, defeat¬ 
ed Hutchinson and Hilton representing ’90, by a score 
of 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 7-5. The officers for ’88 were: 
President, B. S. Simonds ; vice-president, C. G. Saw¬ 
yer ; secretary, C. B. Curtis ; treasurer, O. S. Davis. 

The officers for 1888-’89 were: President, C. A. 
Hardy ’90 ; vice-president, D. L. Smith ’91; secre¬ 
tary and treasurer, A. H. Locke ’90. The semi-finals 


TENNIS AT DARTMOUTH. 


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in singles in the spring tournament resulted as follows: 
Hilton ’90 beat Hutchinson ’90, 6—1, 9-7, 6—2; 
Pond ’90 heat Philbrick ’89, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3; Gun¬ 
nison ’92 beat Hardy ’90, 8-6, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 
7-5 ; Gunnison beat Pond, 6-8, 6-1, 6-2. The finals 
found Hilton the champion , defeating Gunnison, 5-7, 

3- 6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. In the doubles the semi-finals 
were, Philbrick and Barnard ’91, heat Blair ’89 and 
Hitchcock ’89, 6-4, 8-10, 6-4; and Hardy and Gun¬ 
nison beat Philbrick and Barnard, 6-1, 6-0, 6-2. 
Hilton and Hutchinson showed the best form in the 
finals, winning over Hardy and Gunnison, 7-5, 0-6, 
6-4, 5-7, 6-2. 

GUNNISON CHAMPION. 

F. E. Barnard was president of the association in 
in 1889-’90 ; J. S. Brown ’92, vice-president; W. T. 
Carleton ’91, secretary ; W. T. Gunnison, treasurer. 
The usual spring tournament was held. The finals of 
the singles resulted: Gunnison beat Hardy, 6-4, 6-2, 

4- 6, 6-1; Gunnison beat Hutchinson, 6-1, 6-2, 6-1; 
and Gunnison beat Hilton, 8-6, 6-4, 9-7. W. T. 
Gunnison ’92 was therefore champion. 

In the fall of 1890 a tournament was held to select 
men to represent the college in the Intercollegiate 
tournament at New Haven. The result was the selec¬ 
tion of Pond and Gunnison. Permission to participate 
was granted on application, and the above men were 


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sent. This was the first time that Dartmouth was 
represented in the Intercollegiate tournament. None 
of the smaller colleges drew each other, as it happened. 
Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Trinity, and Brown 
drew Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Cor¬ 
nell in the first round, and were, without exception, 
defeated. In the consolation matches Gunnison then 
drew Mallory of Trinity, and was defeated. Pond 
drew George of Brown and defeated him, 3-6, 6-2, 
6-3. Mallory beat Pond. 

A LEAGUE FORMED. 

The interest aroused by this showing at New Haven, 
and the long felt need of intercollegiate contests, led 
to the formation of a tennis league with Amherst and 
Williams in both singles and doubles; and the first 
games took place in the spring of 1891. The “ Part¬ 
ridge cup,” offered through the munificence of Horace 
Partridge, who gave $45 of the $60 required for its 
purchase, applies to the doubles only. The college 
winning the championship holds the cup during the 
year. Three years of possession, not necessarily con¬ 
secutive, determine the permanent ownership. 

Gunnison was president of the Dartmouth associa¬ 
tion, and also champion in singles, as determined by 
the spring tournament. 

The intercollegiate contests in singles were as fol¬ 
lows : At Hanover, Williams beat Dartmouth, 6-2, 


TENNIS AT DARTMOUTH. 


271 


6-2, 6-2 ; at Williamstown, Williams beat Dartmouth, 
3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 ; at Amherst, Dartmouth beat 
Amherst, 6—3, 6—1, 6-8, 2—6, 7-5-; at Williamstown, 
Amherst beat Williams, 8—6, 6—4, 6—3; at Amherst, 
Amherst beat Williams, 6—2, 6—3, 6—4; the remaining 
matches were played at New Haven, Conn., in 
October; Dartmouth beat Williams, 6-3, 6-3, 0-6, 
6-1; Dartmouth beat Amherst, 6-3, 6-3. The 
championship of the league in singles thus went to 
Dartmouth. 

The doubles at the same times and places resulted 
in a tie all around. The scores follow : Williams vs. 
Dartmouth , 3-6, 4—6, 6—2, 6-3, 6—3; Dartmouth vs. 
Williams, 8-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4; Amherst vs. Dart¬ 
mouth, 2-6, 6-3, 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 ; Williams vs. Am¬ 
herst, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2; Amherst vs. Williams, 6-2, 6-0, 
6-1 ; at New Haven, the next fall, this tie was played 
off, resulting in a victory for Williams as follows: 
Dartmouth beat Amherst, 6-7, 6-1, 6-4; and Wil¬ 
liams beat Dartmouth, 6-4, 6-2, 8-6. W. T. Gun¬ 
nison and J. S. Brown were the Dartmouth represen¬ 
tatives ; Anderson and Avery, those from Williams; 
and Stearns and Reed, the Amherst men. 

In singles, in the spring tournament of 1891, the 
second round was: Barnard ’91 beat Calef; Brown 
’92 beat Sanborn ’91; Pond ’91 beat Emerson ’92; 
Colby ’94 beat Morrill ’93; semi-finals, Brown ’92 
beat Barnard ’91; Pond ’91 beat Colby ’94 ; finals, 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Pond ’91 beat Brown ’92; Gunnison ’92 beat Pond 
’91, and was, therefore, champion. In the doubles, 
Gunnison and Barnard were the best pair. 

BROWN CHAMPION. 

The Dartmouth college tournament held in the 
autumn of 1891, was won by J. S. Brown ’92, who 
defeated F. E. Barnard in the finals, 8-6, 6—3, 6-3. 

DARTMOUTH AT NEW HAVEN. 

In the intercollegiate tennis tournament held in 
New Haven, Oct. 13, 1891, J. S. Brown and W. T. 
Gunnison represented the college. Brown was de¬ 
feated by George, of Brown university, by a score of 
6-4, 9-7. But Gunnison played in better form. In 
the first round, Gunnison defeated Hamlin, of Trinity, 
6-4, 6-4. He showed great smashing ability and was 
looked upon as one of the best men there assembled. 
Gunnison next met Hovey, of Harvard, the winner of 
the tournament. Both played good tennis, Hovey 
winning, 6-3, 6-3. Gunnison got as many games per 
set off Hovey as any one in the tournament. In the 
preliminary doubles, Gunnison and Brown defeated 
Avery and Anderson, of Williams, 6-3, 6-1. The 
Dartmouth men next met McMullen and Candler, of 
Columbia, who were the second best combination of 
players in the whole tournament. The strength of the 
team in “green,” appeared to be a surprise to all. 


TENNIS AT DARTMOUTH. 


273 


They won the second set and lost the first and third 
by close scores; 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. J. S. Brown, of Dart¬ 
mouth, defeated Fish, of Yale, in the consolation 
matches. In the play for second place Gunnison 
reached the finals and was only defeated by Lee, of 
University of Pennsylvania, after a very close five-set 
match. 

TWO CHAMPIONSHIPS IN 1892. 

The league series in the spring term of ’92 resulted 
in Dartmouth’s winning first place in both singles and 
doubles. Gunnison and Brown were at their best this 
year, and were probably the most expert combination 
the college ever had, although the progress of any 
game renders a comparison impracticable. The 
matches in doubles were: At Amherst, Dartmouth 
beat Amherst, 6-4, 10-8, 6-4; Dartmouth beat 
Williams, 6-8, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2; Amherst beat Williams, 
6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3; Dartmouth beat Amherst, 
6-8, 6-1, 6-1, 6-1. The victory in singles was 
equally decisive. 

J. S. Brown won the tournament in 1892 by defeat¬ 
ing G. D. Price ’92, in the finals, and won the college 
championship by Gunnison’s default. In the singles, 
Gunnison and Brown both represented the college, 
Gunnison winning twice from Amherst and being 
defeated by Anderson, of Williams. Brown won the 
decisive match by defeating Anderson at Williamstown. 

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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


THE YEAR 1892-93. 

A fall tournament was held. Brown and Gunnison 
had graduated, and new men had to be found to de¬ 
fend the honor of the “ green.” In the preliminaries, 
Hayes ’95 beat G. E. Mann ’94; Couch ’96 beat R. 
W. Bartlett ’94; Gunnison ’95 beat Hamilton ’96; 
Morrill ’93 heat Hadlock ’96; Bushee ’94 beat Foster 
’95 ; J. E. Allen ’94 beat Knowlton ’94; Thurston ’94 
beat Berry ’94; Brown ’95 beat McLaren ’93; Cummings 
’96 beat Foster ’96; Colby ’94 beat Rollins ’94; 
Rice ’95 beat Crosby, D. M. C.; Leach, D. M. C., 
beat Crosby ’95 ; Forbush ’96 beat Morrill ’94. First 
round: Hayes beat Fletcher, Gunnison beat Couch, 
Busline beat Morrill, Allen beat Shattuck, Cummings 
beat Brown ’95, Rice beat Colby, Leach beat For¬ 
bush. Second round : Hayes beat Gunnison, Bushee 
beat Allen, Thurston beat Cummings, Rice beat 
Leach. Semi-finals: Hayes beat Bushee, 6-1, 6-1, 
6-0; Rice beat Thurston, 6-2, 8-6, 2-6, 6-4. Fnals, 
Hayes beat Rice, 6-4, 6-1, 6-0. J. E. R. Hayes ’95 
was the new champion, and his work seemed to be well 
up to the best work of the previous year. 

HAYES, OF DARTMOUTH, CHAMPION. 

The tennis season in the spring of ’93 resulted in 
Dartmouth’s winning the singles and Amherst the 
doubles. Hayes was in good form and played with 














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TENNIS AT DARTMOUTH. 


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the following results: Hayes beat Reed of Amherst, 
at Amherst, 4-6, 6-2, 6-0, 7-5 ; Hayes beat Herrick 
of Williams, at Williamstown, 6-3, 6—3, 6-4; and at 
Hanover, 4-6, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1; Hayes played a 
“ draw ” match with Reed, of Amherst, at Hanover, 
6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 8-10, 7-7. Hayes was taken with 
cramps and could not finish. The doubles were: 
Reed and Wales, of Amherst, beat Hayes and Rice, of 
Dartmouth, at Amherst; Hayes and Rice beat Herrick 
and Ely, of Williams, at Williamstown; and again at 
Hanover, Reed and Wales beat Thurston and Rice. 
Amherst won the doubles. 

fall of 1893. 

An unusually large number of entries were made 
in the fall tournament of 1893, and some new players 
of promise were brought out. J. S. Brown, the old 
’92 champion, had entered the Medical college, and 
consequently took part in this tournament; but 
he was not in practice and fell out in the semi¬ 
finals. The complete result was as follows : Thurston 
’94 heat L. Cox ’96; A. C. Cummings ’96 beat F. 
S. Rollins ’94; J. E. Allen ’94 beat Hadlock ’96; B. 
A. Smalley ’94 beat Foster ’95; Newell ’95 heat 
Knowlton ’94; A. J. Crosby ’95 heat Gibson ’97; 
Thompson ’95 beat F. Crosby ’95; Brown ’95 beat 
Hamilton ’96; Rice ’95 beat Bushee ’94; J. S. 
Brown, D. M. C., beat Jenks ’94; M. Watson ’97 




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beat Taylor ’94; O’Brien ’97 beat Shattuck ’97; 
Gunnison ’95 beat Chase ’96. Second round: 
Thurston beat Cummings, Smalley beat Allen, New¬ 
ell beat Crosby, Thompson beat Brown ’95, Rice beat 
O’Brien. Third round: J. S. Brown, D. M. C., beat 
Watson, Thurston beat Smalley, Thompson beat 
Newell, Rice beat Gunnison. Semi-finals: Thurston 
beat J. S. Brown by default; Rice beat Thompson. 
Thurston beat Rice and, therefore, had to meet Hayes 
the champion of last year. Hayes won by default, 
thus retaining the college championship for the second 
year. 


NEW ERA IN ATHLETICS. 


AtAHE new Alumni Athletic Field was formally pre- 
XF" sented to the College Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 
4, 1893. Fully eight hundred people, including many 
alumni and friends of the college, crowded the grand 
stand to its utmost capacity. Prof. C. F. Emerson, as 
master of ceremonies, made a few felicitous remarks, 
and in introducing Mr. I. F. Paul ’78, to speak for the 
alumni, referred to the interest which this young alum¬ 
nus took in all kinds of sports when in college, and to 
his activity and loyalty since. Mr. Paul spoke as 
follows: 

“ The alumni present this field to the college as a 
testimonial of our regard for, and obligation to, the in¬ 
stitution in which we have an interest and consequent 
responsibility. It is one of the first ripe fruits of 
alumni representation in the management of the col¬ 
lege, and we trust the beginning of many substantial 
harvests from the same source. We present it, not 
alone for the benefit of those who we trust will here¬ 
after always honor their alma mater in inter-collegiate 
contests, but for the whole body of Dartmouth students, 
and in the interest of intelligent physical culture and 
the development of a sturdy, chivalrous manhood. 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


“We are pleased to welcome here the athletic repre¬ 
sentatives * of Harvard, 4 our big brother ’ in athletics, 
whose alumni have done so much for the development 
of pure college sports. 

44 In surrendering this field to the college we con¬ 
gratulate her on her present prosperity under the new 
administration, we pledge anew the support of a loyal 
and enthusiastic body of alumni, and we wish her God¬ 
speed in her magnificent future.” 

Dr. Edward Cowles was then introduced, and 
spoke in behalf of the alumni athletic committee. He 
said: 

44 We wish to express to the alumni our appreciation 
of their generous gift of this beautiful field. Repre¬ 
senting, as we do, the great body of graduates of the 
college, as well as the faculty and students, we believe 
that we have a union of all good men in the support of 
a good thing. We believe in college athletics and the 
interest they give college life, for three reasons which 
are fundamental principles in any educational plan 
which includes the building of character and the mak¬ 
ing of men. The first is love of play; second, the love 
of prowess ; third, the good end of all this. It perfects 
our power to direct, apply, and control the expenditure 
of our energy. It is that which makes possible success 
in contests of strength and skill. We see this in the 
masterly game where men put forth their utmost 


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strength, shoulder to shoulder, with level heads and 
equal tempers in victory and defeat. This is training 
in manliness, and a dependence upon scientific skill 
that is taking the place of roughness in all our games.” 

In introducing the next speaker, Prof. Emerson 
said: “We all are proud of our alumni and their ac¬ 
complishments, and from them we have heard fitting 
words on this occasion, but we have with us a repre¬ 
sentative undergraduate who will now address us,— 
Mr. M. B. Jones.” These are his appropriate re¬ 
marks : 

“In behalf of the undergraduates of Dartmouth 
college, I wish to extend to her alumni heartfelt thanks 
for this beautiful athletic field, perfect in all its ap¬ 
pointments and now presented to the college. 

“ To-day we stand upon a dividing line in Dart¬ 
mouth athletics. To the old campus, for a century 
and a quarter the center of college life, we bid good¬ 
bye, and, in common with those engaged in other de¬ 
partments of college work, feel the impulse of modern 
methods and appliances. And yet no one of us can 
fail to love the spot where, for so many years, our 
various athletic teams, in contest with friendly rivals, 
have earned their many hard-fought victories or sus¬ 
tained no less honorable defeats. How typical has 
that greensward been of Dartmouth’s athletes; for, as 
at the start the runner breasts a hill and on the finish 
finds a downward slope: so have our champions, learn- 


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ing thereby the necessity of hard work, gone forth to 
easy victory upon the cinder track. 

“ Turning then to this new field, with its track and 
beautiful oval, perfect in every way, bringing with us 
the well-learned lesson of hard, faithful work, and re¬ 
membering the past honorable record of the college in 
every branch of athletics, it cannot fail to gladden 
every heart when we pause to consider what, under 
these new and favorable conditions, our future record 
ought,—yes, must and shall be. In returning thanks 
then to the loyal sons of Dartmouth, who have given 
so freely of their substance that undergraduates of 
this and future years may reap the harvest of increased 
health and strength, it is for us to pledge ourselves to 
give as freely of that strength for the honor of the Old 
College that to every one of us is the dearest on earth.” 

The last speaker of the day was President Tucker. 
He said: 

“ I have been an interested listener to the addresses 
just given, but after all, the most intense spectator in 
this assemblage is the old college—the mother of us all. 
There have always been athletes in the college, and 
what the old graduates lacked in science they made up 
in true and honest sport. Whatever changes have 
taken place in athletic methods have in no way lessened 
the true vital principle upon which they were founded. 

“ In accepting this beautiful field in behalf of the 
college, I can only mildly express the deep regard all 


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those connected with the institution feel. These 
grounds, so perfect in every detail, represent the zeal 
and efforts of the younger alumni. Athletics, like 
everything else, need organization; the bad must be 
eliminated, the good retained. My own sentiments in 
regard to the athletic question you already know. I 
believe in athletic sports for what they are in them¬ 
selves, not as a mask for something else. 

“ Let us set apart this field to honest and manly 
sport of every kind. The noble traditions of the col¬ 
lege demand it; the very aspect of yonder rugged hills 
seems to invoke it. Let it be a useful instrument to 
the college in turning out men useful in the world, 
men possessed of noble manhood.” 

THE FIELD. 

The field is said by its builder, a contractor of 
long experience, to be second to none of its kind in the 
country. It certainly ranks among the very best of 
college fields. The grand stand has a seating capacity 
of about 700, is furnished with necessary water appli¬ 
ances, bath and dressing rooms. The oval is a quarter 
mile in circuit, cinder track of ample width, with the 
proper dip on the curves, and admirably located with 
reference to the grand stand. Within this oval is the 
foot-ball field, the diamond for base-ball, and a short cin¬ 
der track and “ take-off ” for the jumps. On the farther 
side of the oval from the grand stand are the associa- 


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tion tennis courts, a 220-yards straight-away cinder 
track, and abundant room for a second foot-ball field. 
A perfect system of drainage has been provided and 
the entire field enclosed with an eight-foot fence. The 
whole was constructed at a cost of $16,000. 


HOW DARTMOUTH STANDS IN THE 
LEAGUES. 


The table below shows the first and second places 
taken by each,—Dartmouth, Williams, and Amherst— 
since these three colleges came into a close rivalry in 
the leagues. The aggregate of these points in the four 
branches of athletics is as follows : Dartmouth 11 firsts, 
1 tie, and 8 seconds ; Amherst 9 firsts, 7 seconds, and 1 
tie for second; and Williams 5 firsts, 4 seconds, and 1 
tie for second. A table giving the standing of these 


College 

Year. 

Base-ball. 

Foot-ball. 

Athletics. 

Singles 

in 

Tennis. 

Doubles 

in 

Tennis. 

1st. 

2d. 

1st. 

2d. 

1st. 

2d. 

1886-’87 •. • 

D. 

W. 



D. 

A. 



1887-’88... 

W. 

D. 

T. 

D. 

A. 

D. 



1888-’89... 

W. 

A. 

T. & 
D. 


D. 

A. 



1889-’90... 

A. 

D. 

D. 

A. 

A. 

D. 



1890-’91 • • • 

A. 

W. 

W. 

A. 

A. 

D. 

D. 

W. 

1891-’92... 

D. 

A. & 
W. 

w. 

A. 

A. 

D. 

D. 

D. 

1892-’93... 

A. 

W. 

A. 

D. 

D. 

A. 

D. 

A. 

1893-’94... 



D. 

W. 






colleges since athletic sports had their origin at Dart¬ 
mouth, would be difficult to formulate ; but that it 
would have a large surplus of “ D.s ” a perusal of these 
pages will conclusively show. 























ORIGIN OF THE DARTMOUTH YELL. 


Wah-hoo-wah! 

Wah-hoo-wah! 

Da, da, Dartmouth, 

Wah-hoo-wah! 

T-I-G-E-R. 

No college yell ever found more admirers than that 
of Dartmouth, given above. It has enough of the 
Indian sound to remind one of the romantic origin of 
the college, and its peculiar ring is distinctly heard 
above every other. The origin of this yell seems, at last, 
to have been definitely ascertained. Sometime during 
the college year 1878-’79, a committee was appointed 
to formulate a college yell. To Daniel Arthur Rollins 
’79, a member of this committee, belongs the honor of 
being its author. Mr. Rollins entered journalism after 
graduation. His untimely death at the age of twenty- 
three, in 1882, cut off a most promising career. 


A CHAPTER OF BIOGRAPHIES. 


Dwinell French Thompson ’69. 

^T^HE subject of this sketch is one of the first great 
figures that meets the historian’s eye as he glances 
at Dartmouth’s record on the diamond. He was cap¬ 
tain of the first team that made any pretensions to 
skill, and is said by classmates of his time to have been 
remarkably endowed with that executive ability required 
in a captain. Before going to Dartmouth he spent one 
year at Bowdoin, where he was a member of the college 
nine. Of the first team in 1865, Sellew was captain. 
From the end of that year, until his graduation in ’69, 
Mr. Thompson was at the head of the college base-ball 
interests. He was also captain of the C. S. D. nine, 
and of that department in the gymnasium. After 
graduation he was appointed tutor in the scientific 
department and also instructor in the gymnasium. In 
1872 he was appointed professor of descriptive geome¬ 
try, stereotomy, and drawing at the Rensselaer Poly, 
technic Institute at Troy, N. Y., which position he now 
holds. The picture presented in this work was taken 
while he was in college. He writes : “ I have retained 
my interest in athletics, helping the students whenever 
possible; have been a member of the executive com- 


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mittee of the Athletic Association at Troy since its 
organization. I have watched with interest the course 
of Dartmouth in athletics, being proud of her successes 
and sorry for her defeats. As one of the original 
choosers of the college colors, and one of those who 
first carried it to victory, my interest can never die.” 

George Stephen Edgell ’70. 

On the first base-ball team of any importance, there 
was no better player than Mr. Edgell, whose position 
was at short stop. In nearly every report which can 
be found of those early games his work was given 
special mention. Although the soft ball and primitive 
methods in vogue at that time make comparisons 
impossible, yet in glancing over the great Dartmouth 
athletes he certainly must appear conspicuous. After 
graduation he went to St. Louis as a member of the 
commission firm of S. M. Edgell & Co. The follow¬ 
ing year he helped organize the St. Louis Boat and 
Iron (Tompany, which was later succeeded by the Tudor 
Iron Works of which he has been an officer and large 
stockholder ever since. In connection with the iron 
interests there, with others he organized a steel plant, 
employing from a thousand to fifteen hundred hands. 
About six years ago he removed to New York, pur¬ 
chasing an interest in the Corbin Banking Company 
which he still holds. In addition to banking interests 
he is extensively engaged in railroading, being presi- 





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dent of the Elmira, Cortland & Northern railroad com¬ 
pany and treasurer of the Long Island railroad com¬ 
pany. Mr. Edgell married the daughter of the Hon. 
Austin Corbin. He spends his summers at his palatial 
residence at Newport, N. H. 

Wyllis Gilbert Eaton ’75. 

Mr. Eaton played third base on the ’Varsity in ’72, 
was captain of the ’75 championship class nine, captain 
of the ’Varsity in ’75, captain in the state militia in ’75, 
rowed bow in ’74 and ’75 on the Dartmouth crews. 
He graduated from Harvard Medical school in ’79 and 
has since had a profitable practice in Lowell, Mass., 
where he cordially greets every Dartmouth man. 

Edward Carrington Stimson ’76. 

Mr. Stimson was one of the founders of the Dart¬ 
mouth Athletic Association and its first president. 
Moreover, he was one of the first to gain recognition 
for the college in track athletics. Stimson ’76 and 
Eager ’77 were delegates to the Intercollegiate Associa¬ 
tion convention, held in New York, which granted Dart¬ 
mouth admission in December, 1875. He rowed on 
his class team, was captain of his class base-ball nine, 
and, with Mr. Young, was the Dartmouth representative 
at the meeting at Saratoga, July, 1876. At this meet 
he won the 3-mile run and 1 mile run in good time, the 


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record of the former—16 min. 21 1-2 sec.—being 
unbroken until 1888. Mr. Stimson was admitted to the 
Suffolk Bar (Mass.) in 1883. In the fall of the same 
year he settled in Denver, where he practised his pro¬ 
fession until ’86, when he removed to Aspen, Colo., 
where he has remained since, a prominent man of the 
state. In regard to athletics, he says : “ In my judg¬ 
ment, the work of preparation and training for an athletic 
contest,—always under proper direction, however— 
is of almost inestimable value in developing the physi¬ 
cal strength of man, so that whatever may be his 
employment in after years, he may have a reserve force 
to call upon in time of special mental or physical strain.” 

Sumner Wallace ’77. 

Mr. Wallace was closely identified with the boating 
age at Dartmouth. On the ’74 ‘‘University crew” he 
pulled No. 5, and on the ’75 ’Varsity he pulled 
No. 2. He was also on his class crews. When 
boating interests began to wane and base-ball expe¬ 
rienced a revival, he took part in the latter sport, 
playing for the most part at third base. Mr. Wallace’s 
“ after college days ” have been verj' successful. He is 
now engaged in manufacturing in Rochester, N. H. 

Charles Winthrop Eager ’77. 

Mr. Eager first rowed stroke on his class crew. It 
was the intention of ’77 to send this crew to Saratoga 
















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and enter it for the freshman race, and it was much 
regretted that this was not done, as the result would 
have been a walk-over for the Dartmouth rowers* 
This crew, however, beat the University crew in a race 
on the Connecticut, from the “ first island to the boat¬ 
house float.” Four of its men, including Eager, were 
given seats in the Varsity. Gates ’74, who stroked and 
captained the crew, in coaching would change places 
with Eager, and the result was that he became accus¬ 
tomed to the position, so that the following year he was 
sent to New York by the college to acquire a better 
knowledge of boating and learn a new stroke. He also 
learned something of walking and running, so that in 
the spring games, ’76, he won the mile walk in 7 : 55, 
defeating Parkhurst, Burnett, and Davis. On the 
whole, however, Eager concedes Parkhurst to have been 
a superior walker. Mr. Eager was highly influential 
in developing other athletics. Since leaving college he 
has been interested in theatrical and other business 
ventures with marked success, and resides at present in 
Manchester, N. H., where he has held numerous offices 
of trust and honor. 

Isaac Farnsworth Paul ’78. 

During his freshman year in college Mr. Paul rowed 
number 5 on his class crew, and number 2 in the sopho¬ 
more year. Besides boating, he took a great interest 
in base-ball playing on his class team in the former 
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290 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


part of his course, and was centre fielder during the latter 
part. But for the part Mr. Paul has taken in promot¬ 
ing pure athletics at Dartmouth in recent years, he 
deserves notice in this volume. He fitted for college 
at Dedham High school, and after graduation at Dart¬ 
mouth in ’78 he taught a part of one year at Fitzwilliam, 
N. H., and went to Boston in the summer of ’79 to study 
law. He was admitted to the bar in March, ’83. Mr. 
Paul was associate editor of “ United States Digest ” 
in 1884-’85-’86, and editor in ’87 and ’88. He was 
principal of Boston Evening High school from 1886 to 
1892; and was elected member of the Boston school 
board December, ’92, for a term of three years. In 
1890-’91 and ’92 he was secretary of the Boston Dart¬ 
mouth club, and president of the same in ’93 ; member 
of the Dartmouth Alumni executive committee in ’91, 
’92, and ’93. In bringing about the new era in Dart¬ 
mouth athletics, as represented by the new athletic field 
and other material aid, Mr. Paul has done valuable 
service for his alma mater. 

Lewis Parkhurst ’78. 

Mr. Parkhurst was noted for his great walking abil¬ 
ity, and for his personal influence upon the early sports 
at Dartmouth. In the spring meet of 1877 he covered 
three miles in 25 min. 16 1-4 sec., which for that time 
was a remarkable showing. He was president of the 
Athletic association during his senior year. He taught 


A CHAPTER OF BIOGRAPHIES. 


291 


for seven years in Fitchburg, Athol, and Winchester, 
Mass., and left a $2,000 salary to go into business in 
the publishing firm of Ginn & Co. He is at present 
the financial man of the firm. 

Charles Hale Cogswell ’80. 

In track athletics Mr. Cogswell was one of the most 
conspicuous athletes in the history of the college. His 
first achievement after entering Dartmouth was to win 
the “ consolation quarter ” in better time than had been 
made in the regular race. At the spring meet of ’77 
he won the half mile in 2 min. 12 3-4 sec.; and the 
quarter in 56 3-4 sec.; fall of ’77, half mile in 2 min. 
14 1-2 sec.; and the quarter in 62 1-2 sec. “ The last 
two races,” he said, “ were about the hardest I ever 
had, although the time was slow. They were run 
against Templeton, a senior who had trained to beat 
me. I had been sick, and was without training. The 
half was not his distance, so I did not have to exert 
myself, but in the quarter, about 100 yards from the 
tape, we both fell exhausted. He was carried off, but 
I got up and walked in.” In the spring of ’78 he ran 
them in 2 min. 16 sec., and 58 1-2 sec. respectively, 
on the campus. At Mott Haven, a little later, he did 
the half in 2 min. 8 1-4 sec., winning third place. His 
pluck was shown by the fact that this race was run 
stocking-feet, as he was unable to get a shoe on, an ab¬ 
scess on his foot having been lanced the night before. 


292 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


In the fall of ’78 he measured the half in 2 min. 9 1-4 
sec., the quarter in 55 1-4 sec., and 220 yards in 25 1-8 
sec.; spring of ’79, half in 2 min. 7 1-4 sec., quarter 
in 54 sec., and 220 yards in 24 1-8 sec. At Mott 
Haven, that spring, he won the half by 12 yards at 
2 min. 12 sec., and the quarter by three yards, in 54 
min. 4-5 sec. He was president of the Athletic asso¬ 
ciation in ’79, and aroused general interest in the sports. 
He was the first Dartmouth man to wear spiked run¬ 
ning shoes in a contest on the campus. After gradua¬ 
tion he won a quarter race at Elizabeth, N. J., in 56 
sec. Two days after this race he ran in New York for 
the amateur championship in the half mile, arid was 
beaten by only a foot at 2 min. 3-4 sec. The following 
Monday Myers, the champion, and Cogswell ran the 
quarter on the polo grounds, to make a record. Myers 
did it in 48 3-4 sec., and Cogswell in 50 1-8 sec. His 
last racing was in Boston, in ’80, when he won both his 
favorite events. He took the degree of M. D. at Har¬ 
vard in ’83, was apjiointed port physician of Boston 
the same year, and in ’87 was made health officer of 
the port. At present he is superintendent and resident 
physician of the Home for Paupers on Long Island. 

Thomas Flint, Jr., ’80. 

The record of 10 1-4 seconds in the 100-yards dash, 
made by Mr. Flint, May 24, 1877, has never been 
broken. Some have been led to discredit this, on the 

















































































































































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293 


ground that time was not accurately taken then ; but 
the historian is obliged to take facts as they are 
recorded, and there is no question that he was the 
great sprinter of his time. He held the record on the 
high jump for a while at 5 ft. 3 in., and the 220-yards 
flat at 24 3-4 seconds. Since graduation he has been 
engaged as foreman of a ranch and in agricultural 
pursuits. Mr. Flint has figured prominently in poli¬ 
tics, being at one time a state senator in California. 
He resides at San Juan. 

Chalmers William Stevens, Thayer School ’80. 

Mr. Stevens fitted for Dartmouth at Wentworth 
academy (N. H.) and Stevens High school, Clare¬ 
mont, his home. As an athlete, he was one of the 
very best in his period. He made a three-jump record 
at 31 ft. 11 in. in ’78, and the hurdle-race record of 
that time, ’76, in 20 1-2 seconds. Stevens rowed 
No. 3 on the ’77 class crew, and was substitute on 
the Varsity crew of ’75. He was a creditable ball 
player, also, catching on the ’77 class team while a 
member of the Chandler school. He met a most sad 
death. February 16, 1884, while engaged as assistant 
to Dr. B. A. Gould of the Cordova Observatory, Ar¬ 
gentine Republic, he was struck by lightning. A 
heavy thunder shower came on in the morning. He 
had just finished breakfast. He said, “ The storm is 
nearly over now, let me look at the 4 Diariv / ” He 


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leaned over the table, reading. A heavy clap of thun¬ 
der was heard. A current of electricity passed down 
a chain from which a hanging lamp was suspended 
over him, thence to his head. His companion beside 
him was knocked down, and, when he arose, saw 
that Stevens was dead. The highest tributes have 
been paid to his memory. 

Lewis John Rundlett ’81. 

Mr. Rundlett enjoys the distinction of being the 
“ first great pitcher at Dartmouth who could deliver a 
‘ curve ball,’ ” and taking the times into consideration, 
many would rank him the best pitcher in the history 
of the college. It was in his day that the best col¬ 
leges in the country lowered their colors to the 
“ green,” and the press in general ranked him among 
the three best amateur pitchers. With Cram behind the 
bat Dartmouth had a star battery. Since graduation 
Mr. Rundlett has been engaged in educational lines, 
being at present superintendent of schools in Concord, 
N. II. He was very prominently mentioned as suc¬ 
cessor to the late Senator Patterson as state superin¬ 
tendent. 

Charles Frederick Mathewson ’82. 

The New York Tribune of February 7,1892, under 
the head, “ A Lover of Pure Athletics,” contains the 
following: “As a promoter of pure athletics Charles 



C. F. Mathewson ’82. 




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F. Mathewson has rapidly come to the front. He has 
the confidence of the amateur world, and has held 
nearly every office in the gift of the amateur athletics. 
Mr. Mathewson is ex-president of the Berkeley Ath¬ 
letic club and the Metropolitan Association of the 
Amateur Athletic Union. Of athletic build and pleas¬ 
ant features, Mathewson is always seen at sporting con¬ 
tests of the best class. He is an athlete himself, but 
business cares have kept him off the cinder track and 
field for a year or two. He is always consulted when 
ahtletic affairs of a weighty nature are to be discussed, 
and his advice is always carefully considered. Charles 
F. Mathewson is thirty-one years old, and was born in 
Barton, Vt., and he lived there, in Boston, and Omaha, 
Neb., till 1876, when he entered St. Johnsbury acad¬ 
emy. He graduated in ’78 with a valedictory rank 
at the head of a large class, and in the fall of that 
year entered Dartmouth college. He was in every 
class of athletics there, playing in the foot-ball eleven 
and in the base-ball team for the whole four years. 
During that time Mathewson played principally at 
third base and behind the bat. In 1881, in the Inter¬ 
collegiate Base-ball League, consisting of Harvard, 
Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Amherst, and Brown, he 
stood at the head of the third basemen, with a fielding 
average of .901. In his senior year he stepped in 
behind the bat, and in spite of alternating at third 
base, stood second among all college catchers, Hub- 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


bard, of Yale, being the only one having a higher per¬ 
centage.Nor did this interfere with his 

scholarship, for during the entire four years he led his 
class, and was graduated with the valedictory, having 
secured an average standing for the course equalled 
by only one or two men in the history of the college, 
receiving the regular prizes in Greek, Latin, and 
Mathematics, and for three years in succession repre¬ 
senting his class in the prize speakings, receiving an 
oratorical prize on each occasion. In the fall of ’83 
Mathewson came to New York without an acquaint¬ 
ance in the city, and entered the Columbia Law school, 
supporting himself during his course by teaching in 
the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn and by private 
instruction. He caught for the Polytechnic nine in 
’83, and the Columbia College nine in ’84 and ’85. 
He was admitted to the New York bar in ’85. At 
this time he entered the law office of Turner, Lee & 
McClure, and two years later became a partner in the 
firm of Root & Strong, the senior partners being 

Elihu Root and Theron G. Strong.No 

man in the Amateur Athletic Union has stood more 
firmly and consistently for pure amateurism in ath¬ 
letics.His most recent prominence is in 

connection with the University Athletic club, being 

one of its nine corporators.Some idea of 

the industry and capacity for work of Mr. Mathewson 
may be gained from the fact, that while holding the 



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foregoing places he has at the same time built up and 
been engaged in a large and active law business, as a 
member of t’:e well-known firm of Strong, Harmon 
& Mathewson.” Mr. Mathewson is still a member of 
this firm, residing in New York. His interest in Dart¬ 
mouth is of the most loyal kind, none of her younger 
alumni be'ng more active in her behalf. The new 
Alumni Athletic Field is mainly the fruit of his sug¬ 
gestion and enterprise, and he prepared the plans and 
arrangement thereof. In the recent development of 
athletic interest at Dartmouth, and in the inauguration 
of the new era, he has played an important part. 

Edward Birdsall Condon ’82. 

Mr. Condon was one of the prominent athletes of 
his time, excelling in field and track athletics in the 
high jump. In foot-ball he was a very valuable man 
behind the line as half-back, and did much to bring the 
game into favor at Dartmouth. To complete an all¬ 
round record he was a base-ball man of no little skill. 
His interest in sports has been maintained since grad¬ 
uation, and in ’93 he offered the “ Condon Athletic 
Prize ” of $60, to be awarded each year to that regular 
member of any athletic team who shall maintain the 
highest standing in his class throughout the year. He 
is at present at the head of the Condon school in New 
York. 


298 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Charles Weston Oakes ’83. 

[By a Classmate.] 

“Crura virumque cano.” 

Fourteen years ago a youth with wan, pinched face 
and a cigarette sat unnoticed on the then campus fence 
and watched his first game of foot-ball—“ Frater 
warn!” Within a day or two he was by some un¬ 
known power made a “Social,” and from that day on 
he was a marked man. Born in Maine, near the birth¬ 
place of the East Wind, he had acquired some of its 
characteristics, and could penetrate the thickest crowd 
as easily and surely as Eurus finds his way beneath 
my lady’s furs. With the old-time rubber foot-ball 
dancing on his outstretched hand, it was a speedy 
Frater who could interfere with, or equal, his progress. 
The dignified and short-winded seniors, the lazy and 
scoffing juniors, and the haughty and contemptuous 
sophs all marvelled and admired, while we freshmen— 
well, he was our foot-ball hero. 

Outside the old-fashioned foot-ball games and an 
occasional base-ball contest, Oakes made no pub¬ 
lic athletic appearance till the spring of our freshman 
year, when he carried off three first, and two second? 
prizes. The hurdle race he ran more as an exhibition 
than to win the prize, and as an exhibition race it 
will long be remembered. Sophomore fall he took 
first prize in the 100-yards and 220-yards dashes, the 





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hurdle race, and the long-jump contest. Just why he 
only took the second prize in the high jump we never 
knew, unless it was the weight of a new spike in one 
of his shoes that held him down. 

In the fall of ’81 he borrowed Bob Marston’s kan¬ 
garoo shoes, and again came in as winner of the above 
four contests, taking only third prize as a high jumper. 
This time Bob insisted on having his shoes back be¬ 
fore the string was up, and Charles lost the inspira¬ 
tion. Only once more did this nimble-footed wonder 
from Maine appear in the lists of open meetings. In 
the fall of ’82 he carried off first honors in the 100- 
yards, 220-yards, 440-yards, and hurdle races, and 
made the then surprising record of 19 ft. 8 in. in the 
long jump. Atmospheric resistance had but little effect 
on him. 

About this time Rugby was coming in style, and 
Charles would play, in spite of bloody noses, sprained 
ankles, broken collar bones, and other disadvantages of 
being a light weight. One of the first hard games I 
well remember, McGill had sent down a team of 
Indians and river-drivers, and they were too heavy for 
our boys. Things were looking pretty blue when our 
artful dodger found his opportunity, and with the ball 
secure under his arm he dodged and twisted through 
McGill’s line. Then, with a clear run before him, he 
led the whole eleven half the length of the field and 
made a touchdown, solitary and alone. 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Small boned, slender muscled, supple, quick as the 
squirrels who always lamented his aim, he was a typi 
cal light-weight athlete. 

Yet, with all the memories of the honors brought to 
the college and the class by those speedy legs of his, 
our pleasantest and most distinct remembrance is of 
Charles Weston Oakes as a man and a friend. 

Lewis Elmer Carleton Hinckley ’84. 

The subject of this sketch was a leading athlete at 
Dartmouth during his course. It was during his soph¬ 
omore year that the Rugby game was inaugurated, 
and in its inception he played a creditable part. In 
base-ball he was catcher on his class team. He brought 
himself into prominence freshman year by defeating 
Condon at the high jump. It was at this meet that he 
received the appellation of “ Snooza,” which clung to 
him throughout his course, and by which he is most 
readily recalled. He was wrestling with “ Charlie 
Oakes ” ’83, who was about to trip him as his brother 
called out, “ Look out for him, Snooza.” He heeded 
the call, and came off victor. His nick-name was his 
medal. Mr. Hinckley graduated at the Albany Law 
school in ’85, has practised in Bangor, Me., Kansas, 
where he was prosecuting attorney for Butler county, 
and in Denver, Col., where he is now engaged in re¬ 
munerative practice in the firm of Trowbridge & 
Hinckley. 




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301 


Clarence Howland ’84. 

“The Father of Football at Dartmouth” is the 
title commonly given to Mr. Howland, from the fact 
that he was chiefly instrumental in establishing the 
Rugby game as a permanent institution at the old 
college, and because for three years he captained the 
Varsity eleven, guiding it to victory over Amherst as 
early as ’81. He possessed in a high degree those 
qualities of organization and generalship demanded 
at those times. Mr. Howland was born at Auburn, 
N. Y., April 29, ’61. He graduated from Williston 
seminary in 1880. After leaving Dartmouth, in the 
fall of ’85, he entered the Columbia College Law school, 
receiving his degree in ’87. In the fall of ’87 he went 
abroad, visiting western and southern Europe, Asia 
Minor, and northern Africa. His career in the legal 
profession is comparatively short, but of the most 
promising nature; and in spite of his hustling busi¬ 
ness, he finds time to devote to the promotion of pure 
athletics and to serve his alma mater. 

Robert Henry Rolfe ’84. 

As an athlete, Mr. Rolfe was distinguished in 
college for his wonderful power of endurance, which 
made him easily the best in half-mile, mile, and 2-mile 
races, which he had little difficulty in winning. He 
was also a crack man on the Varsity foot-ball eleven, 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


playing left tackle and left end during his junior and 
senior years. Since graduation he has been engaged 
principally as an accountant, and is at present cashier 
of the Republican Press Association. 

Alexander Quackenboss ’87. 

Mr. Quackenboss enjoys the enviable distinction of 
being the captain of the great championship nine of 
’87, whose games are among the most memorable on 
record. For three years he played a strong game at 
third base. In the fall of ’86 he was full back on the 
Varsity eleven where he also left a good record. After 
graduation he took a course of medicine at Harvard, 
receiving a degree in ’90. During his first two years 
at Harvard he played third base on the crimson nine. 
In ’90 he was appointed house physician of the Boston 
City Hospital, and in 1892 he became house surgeon at 
the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, which posi¬ 
tion he now holds. 

Henry Osgood Aiken ’87. 

No one has figured more prominently in athletics at 
Dartmouth college in the past decade than “ Henry 
Aiken.” Many, in admiration of the Christian-athlete, 
Stagg of Yale, have styled Aiken the “ Stagg of Dart¬ 
mouth.” At tennis his record was : College champion¬ 
ship in doubles (with Foster ’85) in spring tournament, 
’84 ; college championship in both singles and doubles 


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(with Howland ’87, in the latter) in the spring of ’85 ; 
state championship in doubles at Manchester, N. H., 
(with Howland ’87), spring of ’86; college champion¬ 
ship in doubles (with Howland ’87), spring of ’87. 
In the pole vault he won in each meet until his senior 
year, when Pond ’90 beat him. His best record was 
9 ft. 1-2 in. He was a member of the first team in 
the Athletic league, which won the pennant at Charter 
Oak Park, Hartford, Ct. On the diamond, however, he 
was best known, being pitcher and center fielder of the 
famous ’87 championship nine. Since graduation he 
has been engaged as follows : Principal of the Rutland 
(Yt.) High school, ’87-’88 ; instructor in Latin and 
Greek, St. Luke’s school, Philadelphia, ’88-’89 ; student 
in Princeton Theological seminary, ’89-’90 ; instructor 
in Latin and Mathematics, Morris academy, Morris¬ 
town, N. J., spring of ’90; principal of Northfield 
(Vt.) High school, ’90-’91; and instructor in Latin, 
the Hill school, Pottstown, Pa., where he is engaged at 
present. 

Walter Stephen Scruton ’87. 

The success of the great base-ball team of ’87 is due 
in no little measure to Scruton, pitcher. His speed 
was something remarkable for so slight a man. In 
the famous Dartmouth-Williams game, which decided 
the championship in ’87, he occupied the box and 
endeared his name to the supporters of the “green,” 


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He was also a member of the ’85 and ’86 teams. 
After graduation he taught for a short time in Hills¬ 
borough, N. H., then entered the drug business in the 
same place. He now holds the commission of colonel 
on Governor Smith’s staff. 

Edward Franklin Dillon ’88. 

The fatal railroad disaster near Hartford, Vt., Jan¬ 
uary 4, 1887, brought sorrow to every Dartmouth stu¬ 
dent in the untimely death of Edward F. Dillon, whose 
personal qualities as a friend were unsurpassed by his 
athletic powers. As a pitcher on the Varsity in ’85, 
he improved on the work of his predecessors and was 
said to remind one of the skill of Rundlett. On the 
team of ’86 he played a strong game at short stop, 
where his ability was more needed. He was captain 
and pitcher on his class nine, and class director in ’84. 
His home was in Springfield, Vt., where his aged 
mother now resides. 

Forrest Lincoln Keay ’88. 

Mr. Keay was captain of the Varsity base-ball team 
of 1888, and a member of the championship nine of 
’87. His favorite position was at second base, which 
he covered in excellent shape. He led the nine in the 
batting average of ’87, and stood second in ’88. In 
track athletics also he was conspicuous, winning the 
hurdle race at Hartford in ’87, and, only for an acci- 

























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dent, would have done it again at Worcester in ’88. 
In the latter meet, however, he won the 100-yards dash. 
In ’89 he played short stop on the Auburn (N. Y.) nine 
which won the championship in the “ State League; ” 
’90, he played second base in the Jersey City (N. J.) 
and Wilmington (Del.) teams in the “ Atlantic League 
’91, he was centre fielder on the Portland champion¬ 
ship team in the “New England League; ” ’92, he was 
manager and captain of the Lewiston team in the 
same league; in the summer of ’92 he was on the 
Brattleboro (Vt.) nine; and the following fall he 
entered the Dartmouth Medical college, from which 
he received an M. D. November 21, 1893. 

George Ferguson Chandler ’88. 

The name of “ Zac ” Chandler at Dartmouth is well 
known. He played on the Varsity base-ball nine 
throughout his entire course, the first year in the field 
and the three remaining years at first base. For his 
home run in the famous Dartmouth-Williams game he 
is most gratefully remembered. At the Charter Oak 
meet he took second place in the shot-put, and at 
Worcester the following year he broke the record in 
the same event. The first year out of college he was 
employed in the post-office department at Washington, 
D.C. ; since then he has been a flour and grain dealer 

at Strafford, Vt. 

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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Benjamin Franklin Ellis ’89. 

Mr. Ellis was distinguished for his ability at long¬ 
distance running, holding the present record at 10 min. 
21 1-2 sec. in the 2-mile run. He broke the records 
of Parker and Eastman, the Indian, won many 
points at Dartmouth meets, and his share in the meets 
at Charter Oak and Worcester. In foot-ball he 
played tackle on the ’87 team, left guard on the ’88 
team, and right half on the ’89 championship eleven. 
In the latter year he received a gold medal, offered by 
a New York alumnus through Captain Howland, for 
the “ steadiest training and greatest number of points 
scored.” Since graduation he has been teaching 
physics and mathematics in the Peoria (Ill.) High 
school. 

Clifton Stewart Humphreys ’90. 

Mr. Humphreys came to Dartmouth with some ath¬ 
letic experience in the Portsmouth (N. H.) High school. 
In his work at the college he is best known for his star 
playing at right half on the championship eleven of 
’89. In the Intercollegiate athletic meeting at Worces¬ 
ter in ’89, when Dartmouth won the pennant, he won 
first place in the running broad jump, and also in the 
220-hurdles. The following year he took second place 
in each of the same events. His records were highly 
creditable, as the history of the sports shows. To com¬ 
plete his all-around career he played third base on the 


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307 


Reserves for two years and was substitute on the Var¬ 
sity in ’90. Upon leaving college he entered the em¬ 
ploy of the Manufacturing Investment Company at 
Madison, Me., as draughtsman, becoming engineer in 
charge of construction, assistant superintendent, and 
assistant manager in order by promotion. His loyalty 
to the college has not diminished since he contested 
for her on the athletic field. 

William Odlin ’90. 

The Rugby game, started and grown moderately 
popular under Clarence Howland, had become almost 
obsolete at Dartmouth by ’86, when Odlin entered 
college, and his laborious efforts to place it on a firm 
footing entitle him to a foremost place in the history 
of athletics at Dartmouth. He labored against the 
general sentiment of the college, the frowns of the 
faculty and a lack of experienced material, but the 
fruition of his labors was seen in the great champion¬ 
ship team of ’89, of which he was captain. Mr. Odlin’s 
position was full-back, which he played in remarkably 
fine form. Since graduation he has studied law, and is 
practising his profession at present in Boston, in the 
firm of Odlin & Ruggles. 

James Hiram Fassett ’90. 

Mr. Fassett’s work on the Varsity eleven, as centre 
rush in ’87, ’88, and ’89, attracted universal attention 


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in the college world. He was undoubtedly one of the best 
college centre rushers of his time. He was both strong 
and active, and did much to carry the “ green ” to its 
notable victories. In the fall after graduation he was 
appointed principal of the Mt. Pleasant grammar school 
of Nashua, N. H., which position he held until April, 
’93, when he was chosen to his present position as 
superintendent of schools in the same city. 

Charles Sherman Little ’91. 

No one familiar with modern athletics at Dartmouth 
is unfamiliar with the name “ Squash ” Little. He, 
the mighty hammer-thrower, the flattener of Amherst 
pocket-books, the dashing, slashing, slaying, invincible 
rusher. His first experience on the Varsity eleven was 
in sophomore year at right guard. During his junior and 
senior years also, he played strong foot-ball and became a 
regular bete noir to the Amherst men who had to face 
him. His peculiar gait and animation in a game, and 
the ease with which he sets his opponent star-gazing on 
his back, as he drives through the line with his charac¬ 
teristic stride, are features which every college man of 
his day will remember. Mr. Little was athletic man¬ 
ager during the season of ’91. At the intercollegiate 
of that year he broke the record in the hammer-throw, 
covering a distance of 94 feet 11-2 in., much to the cha¬ 
grin of the Amherst men, who had given great odds on 
their man. After graduation he was employed as a civil 


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309 


engineer until the summer of ’93, when he entered the 
Medical school, where he is now pursuing a three-years 
course. He played a star game at right tackle on 
the championship eleven of ’93 and, at the close of the 
season, was elected captain for the season of ’94. 

Frank Eleazer Rowe ’91. 

One of the very prettiest track events is the quarter- 
mile run, and Mr. Rowe was one of the most speedy 
and stately runners in the amateur world at this dis¬ 
tance. In ’89 he won the event at Worcester in 
52 1-5 seconds, breaking the record. In ’90 and ’91 
he was defeated by very close margins by Shattuck, 
who was thought to be the best amateur at this event 
in America. In the class of ’91 he won by far the 
greatest number of points in the fall meets. When 
his class won the championship in ’90 he succeeded in 
scoring nearly half of all the points gained by the ’91 
men. He was a member of the Manhattan Athletic 
club. Since graduation he has been engaged in news¬ 
paper work on the Springfield Union , as agent for 
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, and as principal of the 
Goodrich grammar school at Fitchburg, Mass., where 
he is at present. 

Edward Kimball Hall ’92. 

Probably no one will dispute the statement that 
“ Ed. Hall ” did more to revive field and track ath- 


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letics to their former prowess than any other man in 
recent years. As manager of the team in ’92 he 
brought out nearly every student that could do any¬ 
thing and got him to train ; and, although he did not 
get a championship team, the team of ’93 was made 
possible by his thorough and energetic work. He 
entered Dartmouth sophomore year from Oberlin, 
where he played second base on the Varsity base-ball 
team. He played second in two championship games 
in ’90; was substitute on the Varsity, and captain of 
the Reserves in ’91; and centre field in ’92. His best 
track event was the 100-yards dash, which he covered 
in 10 2-5 sec. At a Harvard handicap meet he won 
third place in 10 1-5 sec., there being 64 competitors. 
In ’90 and ’91 he played a star game at left end, and 
was captain of the eleven after Lakeman’s injury in the 
season of ’91. Since graduation Mr. Hall has been 
instructor in Physical Culture at the University of 
Illinois, where he has met the most flattering success. 

Elmer Carlton Potter ’92. 

During his freshman year, Potter’s awkward efforts 
were the laughing-stock for the whole college; but 
before his graduation he was pronounced the best all- 
around athlete in the Intercollegiate Association. At 
the fall meet, sophomore year, he won the broad jump 
at 19 ft. 10 in., and was second in the pole vault, run¬ 
ning high jump, and shot-put. In the intercollegiate 


A CHAPTER OF BIOGRAPHIES. 


311 


meet the next spring, he was first in the long jump at 

20 ft. 2 in., and third in the pole vault. In June, 
’90, he joined the Manhattan Athletic club of New 
York. At the fall meet, junior year, he won three 
firsts, three seconds, and three thirds. He was at his 
best in the spring of this year at Springfield, winning 
the pole vault at 10 ft., thus breaking the record, the 
running broad jump at 21 ft. 1 1-2 in., breaking the 
record, being second in the 120-yards hurdle, and third in 
the shot-put. At an indoor handicap meet of the Boston 
Athletic Association, February,’91, he won the shot-put 
against twenty competitors. In the fall of ’91 he took 
second in the pole vault at a New York meet of the Man¬ 
hattan club. Later he went on a trip with the same 
club, to a meet for the Canadian championship at 
Toronto, to the Detroit Athletic club’s games at De¬ 
troit, and to a meet at St. Louis for the national cham¬ 
pionships. At Toronto, he was third in the pole 
vault; at Detroit, he won the running broad jump at 

21 ft. 8 3-8 in.; and at St. Louis, he was third in the 
jump, being beaten only by Reber, the world’s cham¬ 
pion, and Schwegler, the champion of Canada. At 
the fall meet of ’91 he took six first prizes. Press of 
college work prevented his training hard during senior 
year, and at the spring intercollegiate meet he had to 
content himself with two seconds and one third. He 
was substitute on the Varsity eleven, junior and senior 
years. Mr. Potter graduated second in his class, 


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and since then has been instructor in Greek and Physi¬ 
cal Culture in the Mohegan Lake school, Peekskill, 
N. Y. He intends to study theology. 

Frank Webster Lakeman ’92. 

Mr. Lakeman entered Dartmouth from Phillips An¬ 
dover academy, where he was very prominent as a foot¬ 
ball man, and began at once to train for the Varsity. 
He played at quarter-back in very promising form. 
The next year he played the same position on the 
famous championship eleven of ’89, and was considered 
one of the best men on the team, so that he was elected 
caj>tain for ’90. On this eleven he played left tackle, 
and developed a team which lost the championship by 
the narrowest margin, which was universally attributed 
to hard luck. Being re-elected in ’91, he had nearly 
the same kind of a team as the previous year, and lost 
by very close games. Before the championship games, 
however, he received a serious arm injury, and was un¬ 
able to finish the season, E. K. Hall ’92 taking his 
place as captain. After graduation he went into a 
profitable hardware business in Nashua, N. H., in the 
firm of Heath, Lakeman & Co., where he is at present. 

Henry Clay Ide ’93. 

No better short-distance runner ever wore the “D” 
than Ide, and at the past two intercollegiate meets he 
was universally conceded to be the best of the hundred 


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313 


choice athletes assembled. Mr. Albert Whitehouse, 
the well-known trainer, declares that, of all the ath¬ 
letes he has ever seen, either in Europe or America, 
Ide of Dartmouth is the prettiest sprinter he ever saw. 
At Worcester, freshman year, he won the 220-hurdles. 
In ’91 he was second in the 100-yards dash and 220- 
hurdles. In ’92 he won the 220-yards hurdles in 
beautiful form, making a new record at 26 sec., and 
also the 220-yards flat, defeating the boasted Shat- 
tuck of Amherst and establishing a record at 22 3-5. In 
’93 he won the 220 flat, and took third place in the 
220-hurdles after falling down twice. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Dartmouth relay team at Boston in the 
winter of ’93, and easily distanced his Amherst oppo¬ 
nent. He was a member of the Worcester and Man¬ 
hattan athletic clubs. Ide was on the Varsity eleven 
during his entire college course. He played at half¬ 
back until his senior year, when he went to full-back. 
Although he was too light to buck the line, he was a 
marvel at dodging and made phenomenal rushes 
around the ends. To complete his all-around record, 
he was a fair ball player, and during his senior year 
managed the Varsity nine. He is at present pursuing 
a course of study at the Bellevue Medical college, 
New York. 


314 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Archie Joel Ranney, d. m. c. ’93. 

The subject of this sketch was, without doubt, the 
greatest base-hall player that ever wore a Dartmouth 
uniform, and by many he is considered the best 
amateur catcher in the country. The Boston Herald 
of May 28, 1893, says: “ Ranney’s support of the 
pitcher is beautiful. This player seems to be in his 
element behind the bat. He is a swift and accurate 
thrower, lining a perfectly straight jump ball to all 
points of the diamond with professional suddenness 
and confidence. Nothing escapes his mit,a”d the 
ball never lingers there when it is needed somewhere 
else. His clean, free catching excites the spectator’s 
admiration before he has handled half a dozen balls.” 
In the season of ’88, Ranney and Artz shared the back¬ 
stop work; in ’89 Ranney was the only catcher; in ’90 
he was both catcher and captain, and in ’91 he was at 
the U. V. M. medical school. He returned to Dart¬ 
mouth in ’92, entering the medical college, and contri¬ 
buted not a little to winning the pennant of that year. 
Never was he more popular than during the season of 
’93, for, although the pennant was lost, his hard and 
conscientious efforts in the presence of every discour¬ 
agement were marks of loyalty seldom seen, and never 
unappreciated. At the close of the season, he was 
presented with a fine gold watch by the students. He 
graduated from the Medical college in the fall of ’93, 


A CHAPTER OF BIOGRAPHIES. 


315 


standing high in his class, and at once took a position 
as assistant surgeon in the Tewksbury Hospital, Ames- 
bury, Mass. 

Frank Henry O’Connor, D. M. C., Ex-’94. 

During the season of ’92, Mr. O’Connor was the 
best pitcher ever at Dartmouth, and easily pitched the 
nine to a championship. O’Connor is a south paw. 
His delivery is easy and graceful—fully as much so as 
that of any of the pitchers. Like Bayne, of the U. of P., 
he relies on a quick out-drop, which he uses much in the 
same way that the latter does. But his other balls are 
ever so much more effective than Bayne’s, probably be¬ 
cause he has better command of them, for they are a 
good deal the same. At Norwich university he was 
regarded as very speedy, though somewhat wild, and 
could not find anybody able to hold him; but when 
he found Ranney he had no trouble with control. 
He was captain of the nine in ’93, and was not 
equal to his previous year’s record in the box. Of 
O’Connor and Ranney the Boston Herald in May, 
’93, said: “ Such are the principal batteries on the 
college diamond this season. But two pairs as batter¬ 
ies stand out above all the rest—O’Connor and Ran¬ 
ney, J. Highlands and Mason. And when it comes to 
choosing the better of these two, the Dartmouth pair 
seem to deserve the prize. Both of these batteries are 
composed of stars, but while Harvard’s works indi- 


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vidually and sometimes with friction, Dartmouth’s 
works like one man. When the nines behind these men 
are taken into consideration, the case seems yet more 
strong for the Dartmouth pair. An example of their 
best work was given last year, when at Philadelphia 
they shut out, 8 to 0, the University of Pennsylvania 
nine, which had already taken a game from Harvard 
and one from Yale. Any one who saw this game 
must have come away with a new conception of what 
a college battery might be. Mason and Highlands 
have done just as brilliant work, but they have done it 
individually, not with the unison and cooperation that 
is the true test of a college battery.” 

Fred Porter Claggett ’94. 

One of the strongest and prettiest short-distance run¬ 
ners on the amateur track to-day, is Claggett of Dart¬ 
mouth. His favorite distance is the 440-yards dash, 
which it is believed he will bring down close to the world’s 
amateur record. His best record at present is 52 sec¬ 
onds, which he made at the intercollegiate meet at 
Worcester in the spring of ’93. There was no one in 
the race who could pass him, winning by a good mar¬ 
gin. This feat created unusual attention. He was not, 
however, unknown at that time, for, at the Dartmouth- 
Amherst relay race, under the auspices of the B. A. A., 
in Boston, the previous winter, he surprised everybody 
by dashing at once out of the reach of his Amherst 





























































Dwight Hall ’94. 


























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317 


rival. By throwing a shoe, however, he lost the race. 
In the fall meet of ’93 he equalled his best record with 
scarcely any previous training. Although his best 
achievements have been on the track, he has played 
first base on the Reserves for the past two years. 

Matt Bushnell Jones ’94. 

As a centre rush there are few indeed, if any, who 
are superior to Jones. For four years he has played this 
position on the Varsity, improving markedly each sea¬ 
son. In the contests with other colleges his work has 
been especially noted. Stillman, the pride of Yale, 
could stand before him only half of the game played 
early in the season of ’93. Lewis of Harvard, who is 
probable the best centre now playing, says that Jones 
is the best of all the men he meets. Mr. Jones, like 
many other athletes, has been a leading student in his 
class, winning in his junior year the Condon athletic 
prize, offered to that member of any athletic team who 
should maintain the highest standing in his class 
throughout the year. 

Dwight Hall ’94. 

No man in college at the present time has had a 
stronger influence in promoting the cause of pure ath¬ 
letics and conscientious training than “ Delay ” Hall. 
As an athlete he excels in the half-mile race, which he 
is able to do in very close to two minutes, yet in the 


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DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


Dartmouth meets he has won numerous points in the 
other events. The first athletic team that ever had a 
distinct captain, aside from the manager, was the 
great championship team of ’93. Mr. Hall enjoys the 
distinction of being captain of this team, and not a lit¬ 
tle of the brilliant success of that year was due to his 
earnest and conscientious efforts. In his race he was 
unfortunate in drawing a starting position behind a 
large squad, being practically “pocketed,” but was 
able to come in third against these odds. He was 
manager of the championship foot-ball eleven of ’93, 
which was probably the best ever at Dartmouth, and 
the same painstaking care was manifest in these labors 
as in those of field and track athletics. 

Arthur George Bugbee ’95. 

No Dartmouth man ever ran the mile-race in as 
quick time as Bugbee. He entered college without 
any previous training, but evidenced such promise in 
the fall meet that he attracted the attention of the ath¬ 
letic management and was set to training. At the 
Harvard handicap meet, freshman year, he took third 
place in the half mile, and second place in the same 
event at the spring intercollegiate. As a representa¬ 
tive of the Manhattan Athletic club, he took third 
place in the mile at the Metropolitan championships, 
September, ’92 ; and first place in the same event at 
the opening meet of Columbia college new athletic 


A CHAPTER OF BIOGRAPHIES. 


319 


field, October, ’92. His best race was at Worcester 
in the spring of ’93, when he and Jarvis, of Wesleyan, 
ran the mile in beautiful form, and broke the tape 
almost precisely at the same time in 4 min. 32 1-5 
sec. Bugbee will be the Dartmouth athletic manager 
in ’95, being the present junior director. 

Frank Parker Dodge ’95.. 

Mr. Dodge came to Dartmouth with a good athletic 
record in the Boston Latin school, and immediately 
began to train for the college teams. Freshman fall 
he substituted left tackle, sophomore year he was at 
tackle and half, doing creditable work, but during the 
present season he has been kept at half and has proved to 
be a star. He is one of the surest gainers on the team, 
blocks well, and has a good understanding of the game. 
In base-ball he substituted on the Varsity in ’92 and 
played left field in ’93. He has another year in col¬ 
lege, and with his past rate of improvement will make 
one of the college’s best athletes. 

John Edward Rollins Hayes ’95. 

♦ 

After the graduation of the old tennis men of ’92 
there was a general sentiment that Dartmouth would 
have to relinquish some of her prowess in tennis; but 
there was an agreeable surprise in Hayes, who now 
holds the college championship for his second year. 
In the intercollegiates he again surprised his friends 


320 


DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS. 


by defeating the champions of both Williams and 
Amherst, without losing a contest. His strong points 
are that he covers a lot of ground, serves with terrific 
speed, and places the ball with accuracy. Besides his 
athletic ability, he is a close student. 

Stephen Chase ’96. 

As a high hurdler Mr. Chase is probably the best 
ever at Dartmouth, and the suddenness with which he 
came to this distinction entitles him to the greater % 
notice, on account of his possibilities. It was in the 
meet of ’93 that he treated the Dartmouth contingent 
to one of its most agreeable surprises. Russell, the 
Amherst champion, was relied upon to win the 120 
hurdles, but at the crack of the pistol Chase was off 
like a deer and Russell could not follow his pace. He 
won by breaking the record as it had never been brok¬ 
en before, and bringing it close to the world’s figures. 
His time was 16 3-5 seconds. As a broad jumper and 
a sprinter he is more than an ordinary man. 

Edwin Emory Jones, D. M. C. 

In the summer of ’91 Mr. Jones entered the Med¬ 
ical college, and began to train for the eleven. He 
was first tried at centre, but was found to be so lively 
that he was changed to right tackle, where his work 
was much needed. During that summer, and in ’92, 
he was a tower of strength to the team at that position, 


A CHAPTER OF BIOGRAPHIES. 


321 


and was elected captain for the present season. As 
captain he has been equally a success, as the record of 
his May team will show. Mr. Jones ranked high as a 
medical student, and accepted the position of house 
physician at the Hitchcock Memorial hospital at the 
close of the foot-hall season. 

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